I am trying to pipe username and password to the 'Net Start" command on a NT4-DOS client Bootdisk. I placed the username and password in a text file called logon.txt and placed the ascii codes for carriage return and line feed behind each. In the autoexec.bat I piped the logon.txt file as follows... net start < logon.txt This failed cause the NET command doesn't recognize '< logon.txt' as a valid parameter to the net command. So I created a Logon.bat file that simply contained the 'Net start' command and called it from the Autoexec.bat file as follows... logon.bat < logon.txt This failed without an error message. Is it possible to do what I am trying to do? or am I simpy approaching it wrong? Please email me a response? drewp@kdc-atlanta.com

Use the net logon command. Syntax is net logon [username] [password]. For example: net logon user1 pass1.

I think 'net logon' is a Netware command.