Recent content by doug2168

:D OMG!!!! that's what i get for NEVER learning vista i guess and going right from xp pro to win 7 pro. i knew it was simple but, this simple???? sometimes i am just soooooo thick!!!! thanks for ALL of the help. it's very much appreciated. you ARE da man!!!!

Is pass-through authentication turned on? to be honest, i don't know what this is. i did a quick google for it but didn't come up with much except for IIS. What form of the user ID is being used for the login? <domain>\<username>? (I would check Local Users and Groups to verify this, unless...

well, that didn't do it either. oh well. keep trying

ok, i'll know when i get home this evening but i think i found the answer to my issue. it may very well be that the " NoLMHash Policy" is set to "enabled" by default on vista and windows 7 but "disabled in XP pro. i will disable this in group policy and see what happens then. i have a funny...

yep, my point also and just part of the reason i'm testing the OS @ home. i work for a very large corporation and the higher ups are wanting this OS pushed out by the end of next year. there is no way we can have something like this. we currently have 2500 laptops out there in use with XP pro...

ok, and as for logs....i get this: ******************This computer was not able to set up a secure session with a domain controller in domain xxx.xxx (removed purposefully) due to the following: There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request. This may lead to...

ok, that didn't do it either. already had that set to 25 but, changed it to 10, rebooted, logged on to the domain and then logged off. disabled wireless card by turning it off with the switch and got the same message as you gave in your last post. we are now in the realm of the strange i guess...

already disabled.

more details..........sure, i don't think i was very specific. simply put i can login to the domain when i have a connection to it. no problem. when i'm not connected to the domain the domain login does not work because there's nothing to validate the login name and password. so, i can't login...

is this disabled in some way for some reason? for learning purposes i have setup a samba pdc and have win 7 pro installed at home which is joined to the samba pdc. i also have some win xp pro systems joined to the same pdc. the xp boxes have no issues caching passwords and have just about the...