Can't login after detached from domain network?

[zaccaz]

hi there, 32bit vista business with sp1 installed, this laptop joined domain & it was working fine in office, last night when i bring the laptop home, i can't login as domain\username & it said "there are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request", however i can login as local machine's administrator

today back to office connected to office network, can login as domain\username without any problem

my xp experience told me that i should be able to login as domain\username even without office netork, i'm not sure why it didn't work on vista, how to fix? many thx!

 

[linney]

Have a look at the Group Policy concerning "Interactive Logon" to see if it is preventing "Cached Credentials" as mentioned in the first link.

Windows Vista on Dell Laptop

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...d+credentials"+vista+disable#46e051f1c4c53fae

Unable to logon - very interesting problem.

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-accou...11-unable-logon-very-interesting-problem.html

 

[PRPhx]

At work you are connected to the domain and a login server (i.e a domain controller) validates your credentials. However when you are at home, you are NOT connected to your work domain.


What you will need is something like a secure VPN connection. You log into your laptop locally at home. Then start the vpn software and log into your work domain. Then you should have access to what ever resources you normally would have.

You could also set up your work name and password to be the same for the local account. In any case, you would still need to log into your work domain to use your work resources. Logging in locally will allow you to use programs on your laptop, coinnect to the internet, maybe even use your companies email.

 

[Davetoo]

Um, not exactly accurate PRPhx. There are things called cached credentials, as linney points out, that might be causing the problem.

I can take my computer off the domain and login just fine because it is set to cache the last "x" number of logon credentials. A GPO may be setup that is preventing this for the OP.

I'm Certifiable, not cert-ified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

There are no more PDC's! There are DC's with FSMO roles!

 

[PRPhx]

I still have to disagree. if this laptop is not physically connected to the OP's work domain, then the creds he is trying to use locally will not work, if they aren't also set up as a local user.

And without some kind of connection to the work domain, he's not going to log into either the domain or the local pc (He has to change the domain box to the local machine name.)

The line: there are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request says that while he's trying to log into the domain, he can't becasue there are no servers to validate his creds. The OP also stated that he can not login to \domain\username. Again, this says that the user needs to be connected in some manner to his workdomain if he wishes to use the work domain and it's resources, altho he can/should be able to log into the pc locally IF, in fact, cached credentials is enabled.

 

[TheLad]

I have worked at several companies that have configured their laptop builds to cache credentials and the system works well for offline use. It saves having separate user IDs (ie a domain login in the office and a local login when out of the office).

Providing the laptop has been logged into the domain at least once on the network, the same domain credentials will work when the user is not attached to the network - hence cached credentials. Obviously if the user has not logged into the domain when attached to the network, the credentials will not have been cached so login offline will fail.

This is standard stuff....

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