PC goes into "Locked workstation" mode by itself after reboot

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I have a user on W2K sp4 workstation. Novell client 4.91sp2 is installed.
The strange problem is I have a user who reboots every night before leaving
and no one else uses her pc. The next morning the pc is in "locked
workstation" mode with the local administrator account. She has to power off
and back on and is then able to login normally. If she logs off and comes
back later, the same issue happens. So it seems that even though it is a the
login prompt, after a certain time period, it locks. This is the first time
I see this. I went through the event viewer and found nothing. I completely
uninstalled the novell client and reinstalled thinking it might be a
nwgina.dll issue or nmas issue but the same thing still happens.

If anyone has any ideas, it would be greatly appreciated.
 
Jay015 said:
I have a user on W2K sp4 workstation. Novell client 4.91sp2 is installed.
The strange problem is I have a user who reboots every night before
leaving
and no one else uses her pc. The next morning the pc is in "locked
workstation" mode with the local administrator account. She has to power
off
and back on and is then able to login normally. If she logs off and comes
back later, the same issue happens. So it seems that even though it is a
the
login prompt, after a certain time period, it locks. This is the first
time
I see this. I went through the event viewer and found nothing. I
completely
uninstalled the novell client and reinstalled thinking it might be a
nwgina.dll issue or nmas issue but the same thing still happens.

If anyone has any ideas, it would be greatly appreciated.
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Have a closer look at the logon process. I bet that Windows is
configured to log on automatically!
 
I don't think it's an auto-logon issue since we do get the login prompt.
It's just after a certain time (which we have not been able to determine)
that it goes in locked mode. Unless I'm mistaken, we wouldn't even get a
login prompt if auto-logon was enabled.
 
Guessing is not very useful here. You really must observe the boot-up
process and watch what happens until the locked mode cuts in.
 
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