login from command line

Question, I leave our NT server not logged in to prevent unauthorised access. But I would like to automate it logging in each evening at 12am as the backup user and running ntbackup to backup the entire drive, then logging out.

Windows Software 5498 This topic was started by lelton, 2004-04-21 05:33

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lelton

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#125636

2004-04-21 07:33

Question, I leave our NT server not logged in to prevent unauthorised access. But I would like to "automate" it logging in each evening at 12am as the "backup" user and running ntbackup to backup the entire drive, then logging out.

I can automate the backup process via a commandline but can we get NT to login from a commandline command. There doesn't seem to be a login.exe that we could run from a batch file.

Any ideas ?

Les

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peterh

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2004-05-06 18:35

There is no need to login. You can use the scheduler to automatically 'login' and run a backup and you can specify which user to use as well. See Schedule under My Computer (or Control Panels) or use the AT.EXE command to schedule jobs.