Sandeep Neupane

Autologin is not provided default by Windows. As a security measure, Windows wants you to keep a password login(PIN, password, fingerprint, picture, text etc) feature, but sometimes you'd want it to startup automatically for variety of reasons. A logged in system can be used with variety of startup applications, Kiosk interfaces, or even Remote Access feature such as VNC. It lets you make a cleaner setup out of your Windows machine. Also, if you aren't a Linux user, you will be able to setup home server in Windows machine after enabling autologin feature. Side note : You don't need autologin feature in Linux in order to use the machine as a server. The straightforward way to setup autologin is to keep a single account in the machine and disable password. However, you cannot leave your machine at the mercy of unauthorized access with this option. So, the recommended method is to setup an Administrator account with password, and setup auto login with a standard user. But t

Recently, we decided to move our SOHO RHEL server at office to a more permanent location. After powering it on in its new location, we discovered the network was not working. We used to log in to a static IP address of the device using ssh via PuTTY from our laptops to get into the server environment. We hadn't started doing a port configuration system yet, so it must have been something within the physical machine itself. When I joined the team the entire thing was already setup so I hadn't got a chance to look at how we were working with it so far, and this was an opportunity for me to go and take a look at it. Here's how we were using our server. A RedHat Linux Server Disk Image file running on VMWare Pro installed on a Windows 10 machine. First I thought it was a disk image issue and removed all image and configuration files from VMWare. After re-adding the disk image file the system booted perfectly but we weren't getting the previous static IP address as bef