Normally, when you install Windows Longhorn 4074, you'd have to logout of the Administrator account to see this screen, which surprisingly, has the CTRL+ALT+DELETE to unlock screen which isn't normal on a standard install of Windows client. That's normally a thing you'd have to configure.
So here's the main "Pick a user to begin" type thing just like in XP. This is pretty normal, even for post-Longhorn Windows.
There's a "Log on as other user" link on the "Pick a user" screen, and it leads me to this standard log on screen. Reminiscent of the Windows Classic log on screen like in 2000 and XP. I thought that when I add Active Directory, it would add the drop down box for "Domain:" like in the Windows Classic version. I found out otherwise later on.
So we login as Administrator! Everyone has seen this before, but as you already know, the current user is at the top of the Start Menu.
So, let's add a domain! We go to Start > Right-click "My Computer" > Properties > and "Computer Name". From there, we got the buttons to add the computer to a Domain. Wait! Where is the domain though?
Right here, in the background! It's Windows 2000 Server configured as a DNS, DHCP and Active Directory server! It might not be Server 2003, but it'll work for this use.
"gensokyo.gensokyo.local" Yup, we are definitely on the same network as the Server! Now we can hook up Longhorn to an Active Directory domain.
I skipped a few steps in the pictures, but you had to select a few options to tell Windows it's going to be part of a Domain. Here we are, adding in the login details of Satori, who is authorized to add the computer to the GENSOKYO domain. (If you can tell what I am referencing here, props to you fellow!)
Here it's asking us what the computer name is and what domain it's going to be on. I'm not too sure what's going on here, but putting the full "GENSOKYO.GENSOKYO.LOCAL" under "Domain" seems to work, so I'm rolling with it!
I dunno why Windows always asks for a second login for this, but eh, I'm just typing in Satori since this account is authorized to do this. After this, I finish up adding Longhorn to the Domain and set the VM to reboot.
The CTRL+ALT+DELETE screen happened again, so I skipped it. Here I actually clicked on the "Administrator" thing, and unlike last time where it logged in immediately, it asks for a password. Administrator doesn't have a password, so I'm assuming that this has something to do with Active Directory now being a thing.
I click "Log on as other user", and to my surprise, there's no "Domain" drop down box. So I assume it's already set to log on onto the GENSOKYO Domain and type in the username and password like this.
Longhorn proceeds to tell me that it doesn't know what this user even is.
I remember reading in the final version of Vista and 7 when it's on a domain, there's usually a thing telling you how to log on to another domain. It's always "domain\user", so I attempted that here.
That worked! That logged me in as Satori on Windows Longhorn. At this point, I was pretty amused that the thing even worked! Then I remembered on the final version of Vista and 7, when you logged out after logging on as "Other User", windows remembers this log on and puts the Domain and User for you so you only have to type in the password. I proceed to log out.
Bam! Just like on Vista RTM and later, Windows Longhorn remembers the previous user who logged on.
There you have it! Windows Longhorn 4074, despite being before the whole Development Reset of 2005, it even has this feature of Vista and later already envisioned and in operation. It's not quite the same, but the jist of the later graphical log on screens for Windows are here, way back in the year 2004. I find this fascinating, so I hope someone else here does too!
Also, I spotted a Firefox 23+ Icon. How'd you do it, considering it looks like it's a plain 4074 install?
