SMCLIENT.EXE: Doesn't Logon to Server (253475)

This article was previously published under Q253475

SYMPTOMS

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 that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce the Behavior

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

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

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

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

Modification Type:	Major	Last Reviewed:	7/30/2001
Keywords:	kbprb KB253475