Starting a Windows client

This topic provides information for starting a Windows-based client.

Context

In a typical setup, the Windows-based client starts automatically when the machine is booted. If your machine is not set up to start automatically, you can start the client manually.

Steps

  1. To setup the Windows® client to start automatically:
    1. Edit the Windows registry by typing regedt32 and press Enter.
    2. Navigate to the start key: \\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services \STFS.
    3. Double-click Start and change the value to 2 to enable the client to start automatically when the machine is booted.
    4. Click OK to close the window.
    5. Reboot.
  2. To start the Windows client manually, use the net start stfs command.

Parent topic: Starting a client

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Clients

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Stopping a Windows client

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