when i'm not connected to the domain the domain login does not work because there's nothing to validate the login
I'm assuming that when you try to login offline, you get the following error message:already disabled.
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.
Jeepers! So even though we've told it to not require a domain server for authentication, it's requiring a domain server for authentication.
I'm glad that I haven't upgraded any of my Active Directory-managed notebooks yet! There are a few roadwarriors who would have been thoroughly pissed with me if they couldn't log on to their machines when away from the office!
But that's useful information. More later...
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 feeling that this will solve my problems because samba is much like nt 4 and the password hash it used.
will post back with my findings later tonight.
login id looks like <domain>\<username>
That's got to be the problem! When a domain is specified in the login ID, Windows searches for a domain controller to authenticate the user name. try removing the "<domain>\" part.