When the AWS 95 is first powered on it will immediately launch A/UX through an alias in Startup Items of the Macintosh partition. A/UX 3.x.x will usually go straight to the Finder, logging in as root if (and only if) there is no password on the root account, which is the default installation. If the administrator chooses to add a password to the root account, A/UX 3.x.x will stop at the standard A/UX Login screen and wait for a password. In the default File/Print server configuration there is a text file called "Autologin", in the Preferences Folder of the Login System Folder, which contains the name of the account for the system to automatically login to. By default it is set to root. If this file does not exist, here is how to recreate one.
1. Open any text editor in the Mac OS or in the CommandShell.
2. Create a new file and name it "Autologin".
3. The first line should only contain the word "root".
4. Save this file in /mac/sys/Login System Folder/Preferences.
5. Quit the text editor.
With this file present, the next time the server starts up, it will automatically log in and (if the proper alias is in the default System Folder) launch AppleShare File or Print services. For security reasons, many administrators may NOT want the file server to automatically log in as root. To prevent this from happening, remove this file from the /mac/sys/Login System Folder/Preferences folder.
Note: This file is not usually present in default database configurations.