Fast user switching in Windows Server

[Guest Taym]

Hello everybody.

This is my first post, so I'd like to say hi to everybody and thank you all in advance for your help. I see this is a really interesting web community, and I'm sure I'll like it

Even though I don't like it much, for various reasons I would like to setup a fast user switchin on a Windows Server 2003 box. I have read the famous guide to turn Windows Server into Professional, so to speak, but, unless I am missing something, I could not find any way to do this. It would be ideal if I could also have the simple logon screen that XP has by default, the one with the list of users on the blue background, to give you the idea of what I mean.

Thank you!

Edited June 22, 2005 by Taym

[jondercik]

Why would you want to ruin a server like that?

[Guest Taym]

Why would you want to ruin a server like that?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Believe me, I agree.

I have a box with Raid 5 disks and no Raid 5 controller. Raid 5 management is really good in Windows Server, so I decided to go with that. However, a number of users asked repeatedly to please go back to the traditional user switching. The machine is isolated, so no Domain. Only a number of local users.

[Aegis]

Maybe it's not possible?

http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/raymondc/PermaL...a8-41eb0bfd0ce8

[magic_p]

Why do you have "users" even touching the server? Why would you open that machine up to such problems. No server should be accessed at the console by a User. Physical security on that machine is compromised and you are going to have users doing nasty things to that machine eventually.

If they don't like the login box instead of the Fast User Switching login screen, GOOD! It'll keep them off the server, where they don't belong anyway.

[LeveL]

Honestly, some of the answers on here beggar belief at times.

If a guy asks "How can I put Fast User Switching on Server 2003"

why do people ALWAYS have to answer the same sh1t every time,

like "Duh, why would you want to do that".

The guy wasn't trying to provoke a debate on whether he "should or

shouldn't" be doing "this or that"... he obviously WANTS Fast User

Switching on Server 2003 otherwise he wouldn't be f**king asking

in the first place!

Sorry, it just bores me senseless when all I ever see is these SAME

OLD REPLIES every time re: Server 2003.

What if the guy posting actually bought Server 2003 for gaming to use

it as a workstation? Why the hell does MSFN have an actual guide telling

you how to convert Server 2003 to a workstation if this is how people

asking straight forward questions are going to be treated? Treated like a

three year old who shouldn't be trying to put Fast User Switching on

Server 2003.

Its no wonder the guy never came back!

Nothing annoys me more than seeing know-it-alls who have ZERO imagination

telling people what they want and thinking they know what people want more

than the people themselves do.

Don't you guys ever stop and think, hmmmm, well hang on a minute, this guy

is asking how can he implement Fast User Switching in Server 2003, therefore,

maybe the best thing to do is explain how to do that, not just ignorantly tell him

he shouldn't be doing it?

Honestly, its just the mentality of it.

Anyway, Server 2003 kinda does have Fast User Switching, if you press Winkey+L

you go to the locked computer screen and you have to type, oh dear, type, the user

name in + password and thats it "Slow User Switching"

Edited March 31, 2007 by LeveL