login takes me to dashboard. Why are posts not shown by default?

Hi
I have set up a wp blog in my home pc. I create few users.
When I login as admin it takes me to the dashboard page.
When I login as a subscriber it takes me to my profile.

By default, I dont find the posts.
Where do i go wrong? How do i make my blog show posts, comments and archives by default? (I have all theses as selected widgets, already)

TIA