Home Forums Discussions Problems How to set Admin password with AC

I set up the AC database on the server (a windows 7 pro system) without using an admin password.

Now I want to put the admin password on, but now the terminals are not linking up.

So I removed the password protection from the user name.

So what do I have to do, set that user name without admin priveleges, and everything should run fine. And create another user name with admin privelege to protect the system? I would like to know what will happen first before I experiment.

One way to do this is to run the service as an administrator, but set the share with a username (like 'examuser'), and then a user password.

Then, run the other users as examuser (same password), and map the drive with the examuser credentials.

This approach serves the double benefit of having users running NOT as administrators, as well as you have a single user password to change whenever there is a change in staff.

Sorry for being too computer illiterate. How do you map a drive with another user's credential?

That is probably where I am having problem. Learning how to share files, drives, etc. using windows 7. I am more familiar with the windows xp format.

Here is a walk-through with several screen-shots.

Hopefully this will make the process more do-able for you.

http://www.7tutorials.com/how-map-drives-windows-7

I guess I found out the problem. Apparently all my terminals (win 7, vista, and xp) communicate with the base computer (win 7 pro) seemlessly. They save their network setting, and get through with admin privelege to the data base they were originally linked with.

The glitch is in the one Vista computer that apparently has problem saving its setting upon shutting down. It goes in this quasi-sleep mode that can not be woke up without a hard boot (unplugging and plugging). So it really never goes off.

So all of the settings on the network goes haywire, unless you either have no password requirement on the server. Or that the server and the computer has the SAME name and SAME password - then it connects fine. Apparently, AC link up to the right computer and right database, but can not save the password, and has to relink each time.

Temporarily, I have to give this computer the same username and same password as my main computer (which is not a good idea). Until I find out what is holding it up... Whether it is a windows update or a bad driver somewhere. My gut feeling is that it is a bad windows update. I really hate these updates (as there are over 100 of them since Vista was first built for this computer in 2006).

I hate windows.... Hopefully windows 7 is an improvement. I find Xp to be more stable than vista. Of the 2 vista computer we have, they can't go to sleep, can not be woken up, and they do not link well to the printer and lose their driver and settings all the time.

I have to admit I would like to help but can't, because I am really confused by what you are saying. I am not sure what username and password you are referring to unless it is the username and password of the server computer. AC only needs usernames and passwords for internal security and not for connections.

Windows works well when set up well as JamesNT will tell you. XP is the best so far but WIN7 Pro is really good. Vista is horrible and you would be better off throwing it away.

The only way Vista and WIN7 Pro and XP can go into sleep mode is if it is set up that way. I don't use Vista, so I can't be sure. When I set up a new user or PC the FIRST thing I do is turn off all of the auto sleep and auto off modes for computers and monitors.

I would recommend not turning off any computer at all ever. Which means going into the Power section in Control Panel or under Screensaver and turning off all auto sleep modes.

There should never be ANY situation where you have to unplug and plug a computer back in. That is not a hard boot. A soft boot is the way it was intended using the software. A hard boot for when you are frozen is from the button on the front of a computer. One should never, nor ever turn off a computer by unplugging it. If you have to do that there is something seriously wrong with you computer.

I don't see where a driver or a windows update would cause this. Do you have System Restore? You can revert back to before an update. Those file are kept in Windows.

Bert: how do you secure your system at night if you leave the computers on?

Haven't heard from Bert what he does, but it is easy enough to CTRL-ALT-DEL (3 finger salute) and select lock computer.

You can also just log-out of the computer and leave the machine at the log-on screen.

[Win-menu]-L locks faster if you need to save a click

Set screen saver to 10 minutes or 30 minutes which is what we do and set it to lock after.

But, ALL of your users should be LOGGIN OUT and not locking their computer anyway.

Your users should only have access to certain charts on the server, but I will admit that takes an almost full time IT to keep that configured.