Rob Feldman wrote:
Used Administrator login on XP client to grant domain users rights to log on
to client machine (such as when offline). All attempts to log on to local
machine fail authentication (error "System could not log you on. Check user
name and domain..."). Everything else works fine, including logon to domain
and synchronization of offline folders. Frustrating having all data
available offline but inaccessible because I can't log in!
Don't know what I'm doing wrong, seems like my setup is wrong preventing XP
from getting password info properly for later use away from domain. Sorry if
this is a dopey question, but I've pored over all howtos & other resources
and am still stumped. Plenty of help available for fixing XP clients not
logging into smb domain, but none I can find if XP can't log into itself.
Have you tried just logging in with the domain login and password?
XP Pro caches login credentials, so the next time a user logs in, the
cached credentials can be used if for some reason the machine can't
contact a domain controller. For example, I have an XP Pro machine on
my desk, joined to a domain managed by a Samba server. I pulled the
network cable out of that machine, then logged into it using my plain
old unprivileged domain logon. Works fine, except that I can't get to
my home directory out on the Samba server :-)
Microsoft already did the grunt work to let your users logon to an
off-network machine.
Don
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