This is normal as if the system is not connected to the network it  
will not auth to AD. Reconnecting it to the network will not (at least  
not on my network) allow access to mapped drives, shared folders and  
the like. You can disable cached credentials so if the box would need  
to check back with the DC for each login attempt.


On Oct 4, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Adrian Crenshaw wrote:

> I just found out something interesting by accident. It seems that if  
> an account is logged in to a box, but the box is locked, you can not  
> unlock it with a locked account (too many bad password attempts I  
> think). However, if you pull the network connection so it has to use  
> cached credentials it will let you right in, then you can reconnect  
> the network cable. I'm not sure if it would work if the user was  
> logged out, but if someone could test and let us know that would be  
> cool. Seems like an interesting oversight.
>
> Adrian
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