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Q253475: SMCLIENT.EXE: Doesn’t Logon to Server

Article: Q253475
Product(s): Microsoft Press
Version(s): 
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 30-JUL-2001

SYMPTOMS
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SMCLIENT may hang at the Winlogon dialog waiting for user input. It may be
necessary to restart the tool. However, SMCLIENT still may not execute the logon
command.

CAUSE
=====

SMCLIENT will run and connect to the Terminal Server and the Winlogon dialog
will appear. However, SMCLIENT does not send the users name to the Winlogon
dialog, thus Terminal Server Client does not logon to the Terminal Server.

RESOLUTION
==========

Microsoft has created a replacement for SMCLIENT.EXE that fixes this problem.
The self extracting archive file SMCLIENT.ZIP contains the executable and
documentation for SMCLIENT.

SMCLIENT is available for download from the following Microsoft FTP site:

  ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/reskit/win2000

STATUS
======

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products that are
listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION
================

Steps to Reproduce the Behavior
-------------------------------

1. Create a local user named "test" on the server.

2. Make the following sample scripts named test.scp to test smclient.exe.

  {
      connect("test", "test", "", 640, 480);
      // Wait for desktop
      check("Wait4Str", "MyComputer");
      logoff();
  }

3. Run the sample scripts with "smclient.exe -v -f:test.scp".


Additional query words: rkbook win2000 TOOLS RESKIT RESOURCE KIT

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Issue type        : kbprb

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