Unable to logon due to Domain being unavailable.

[Steve Audus, Chaucer BEC, Sheffield UK]

We have a set of teachers laptops, that we have reinstalled Windows XP Pro
Sp3 on, and joined the laptops to the domain, and moved the laptops into the
correct OU.

But when staff take thier laptops home, they can nolonger logon to thier
accounts, because the domain is unavailable.

They used to be able to, and i am no aware of any changes to the Group
Policies that would stop them.

I am really stuck on this, can anyone help?

Thank you.

 

[Anthony [MVP]]

Re: Unable to logon due to Domain being unavailable.

Steve,
Just to rule out the obvious, is this after they have logged on successfully
to the new laptop while they are connected to the domain?
Anthony,
http://www.airdesk.co.uk


"Steve Audus, Chaucer BEC, Sheffield UK"
<SteveAudusChaucerBECSheffieldUK@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0CB15E61-73A1-454E-A13C-EF2ACDB7FAB4@microsoft.com...
> We have a set of teachers laptops, that we have reinstalled Windows XP Pro
> Sp3 on, and joined the laptops to the domain, and moved the laptops into
> the
> correct OU.
>
> But when staff take thier laptops home, they can nolonger logon to thier
> accounts, because the domain is unavailable.
>
> They used to be able to, and i am no aware of any changes to the Group
> Policies that would stop them.
>
> I am really stuck on this, can anyone help?
>
> Thank you.
>

 

[Steve Audus, Chaucer BEC, Sheffield UK]

Re: Unable to logon due to Domain being unavailable.

Yes,

Even a Domain Admin account can't log on when the laptops are not connected
to the network, and they used to be able to as well.

Thank you for your help on this.

Steve

"Anthony [MVP]" wrote:

> Steve,
> Just to rule out the obvious, is this after they have logged on successfully
> to the new laptop while they are connected to the domain?
> Anthony,
> http://www.airdesk.co.uk
>
>
> "Steve Audus, Chaucer BEC, Sheffield UK"
> <SteveAudusChaucerBECSheffieldUK@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:0CB15E61-73A1-454E-A13C-EF2ACDB7FAB4@microsoft.com...
> > We have a set of teachers laptops, that we have reinstalled Windows XP Pro
> > Sp3 on, and joined the laptops to the domain, and moved the laptops into
> > the
> > correct OU.
> >
> > But when staff take thier laptops home, they can nolonger logon to thier
> > accounts, because the domain is unavailable.
> >
> > They used to be able to, and i am no aware of any changes to the Group
> > Policies that would stop them.
> >
> > I am really stuck on this, can anyone help?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
>

 

[Meinolf Weber]

Re: Unable to logon due to Domain being unavailable.

Hello Steve Audus, Chaucer BEC, Sheffield UK,

Have the useres logged on one tiume before they use the machine as standalone?
Check your GPO's for cached credentials setting. Go to:
Computer configuration, windows settings, security settings,local policies,
security options, in the right pane "Number of previous logons to cache"(windows
2000) or "Interactive logon:Number of previous logons to cache"(windows 2003)

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> We have a set of teachers laptops, that we have reinstalled Windows XP
> Pro Sp3 on, and joined the laptops to the domain, and moved the
> laptops into the correct OU.
>
> But when staff take thier laptops home, they can nolonger logon to
> thier accounts, because the domain is unavailable.
>
> They used to be able to, and i am no aware of any changes to the Group
> Policies that would stop them.
>
> I am really stuck on this, can anyone help?
>
> Thank you.
>

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Re: Unable to logon due to Domain being unavailable.

Steve Audus, Chaucer BEC, Sheffield UK
<SteveAudusChaucerBECSheffieldUK@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> We have a set of teachers laptops, that we have reinstalled Windows
> XP Pro Sp3 on, and joined the laptops to the domain, and moved the
> laptops into the correct OU.
>
> But when staff take thier laptops home, they can nolonger logon to
> thier accounts, because the domain is unavailable.
>
> They used to be able to, and i am no aware of any changes to the Group
> Policies that would stop them.
>
> I am really stuck on this, can anyone help?
>
> Thank you.

Hi - I replied to this identical post in another group. In the future,
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thread. Multiposting wastes everyone's time, including yours, and may lead
to your actually getting *less* help rather than more.

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