I have set up win server 2003 as a home server. is there anyway i can be on my laptop or one of my other computers and have the computer auto login in to the server without me having to click on network places and login in with user name and password each time i turn the computer on.

I'm assumign you are using a peer-to-pere network. Just create identical accounts on the server as the ones you use on your other machines with the same passwords and give them the appropriate access. When you first attempt to connect to a resource on the server it will first attempt to authenticate you with the username/password of the account you are using. If that account does not exist or does not have the proper acces it will prompt you to login. Michael J

so if i for example have an account on my windows xp laptop login into as an example user name flash and the password is 12345 then just create the same user name and password on the server? Do I have to be logged in to both these accounts or can the server be signed in as admin and the laptop as user name flash? thanks for you help. I am an advanced computer user but this server stuff is new to me.

The server doesn't need to be "logged in" at all. And I would advise ever leaving it with an admin account logged in. As long as the server is at the login window it will accept requests from other computers for shared resources. To expand on what I said previously, when you attempt to access a resource on the server it will attempt to authenticate you using the username/password you are using on your XP machine. If it matches an account that exists ont he server which has rights to that resource it grants that computer access - it does not log that user into the server. This works the same way when attempting to connect to a shared resource on an XP Pro machine (I don't know if Home works the same or not) Michael J