Remote user issues.

[pikk67]

Not sure if this is the right place to post but what the heck. It's a long one...

I've recently upgraded our company domain server to 2003 server and use this for DNS as well. Prior to this, we ran NT 4. Now several of us have laptops (including myself) and home wireless/wired networks. All of which worked flawlessly before the server upgrade. Now...when myself or others try
to connect to their home workgroups (to XP or Win2k boxes), we're getting the error. "There are no logon servers available to service the logon request". This happens whether I try to connect to a Win2K box or an XP box.
Both machines are on a wired/wireless b network using a Linksys Broadband Router. Others that are having the same problem use Linksys as well as other brands...same problem occurs. I assume this is a DNS issue. Also worthy of
noting is that we all run IpSec thru FreeSwan for our VPN and this of course works fine. In any event...I've tried everything to try and fix this and still no luck. (Netswitcher, separate HW profiles, etc.) I'm going a little nuts trying to resolve this. Strangely
enough though...I used "Net Use" once and it did work for one of my machines but now...not anymore. Same error at the DOS prompt every time. Also worth noting is that our president can no longer use his VPN thru the wireless
access zone at airport. This worked fine before the upgrade.

Could adding WINS to my Win2K3 server help?

TIA

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[GlenJohnson]

No, wins is for pre w2k machines. Have you checked for error logs on the server?

Glen A. Johnson
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[pikk67]

Hi Glen

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I checked...nothing out of the ordinary. If I'm at home and login locally on my laptop then i can see home network. If I logon to my laptop using my normal domain login...I get that ever annoying No logon Servers error. Obviously it's trying to use DNS from my server network to authenticate and resolve the names but I don;t want it to do this when I'm out of the office. There's gotta be a way to fix this. I even tried using my host files and still no luck. Someone out there must have been thru this before.

Thanks again Glen. Appreciate the help!

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[Castor66]

You need to cache a login locally on your laptop. What OS are you running, XP or 2K, I hope? If so, look in your local security settings (Control Panel/Admin Tools). Look at Local Policies|Security Options and it's there under Interactive Logon:Number of previous logons . . .

This will only work if the same user logs onto the machine. If multiple users access the machine then you will need to change the caching policy accordingly.

 

[pikk67]

Castor66

I will give this a try...I really didn't think it could be that simple though. I've been on this problem for weeks now.

I'll let you know.

Thanks Tons!

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[pikk67]

Castor

Ok, I found the option and it is currently set to 10. What do I do now?

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