No logon servers available to service request

[David Swayze]

I have a Win2k Pro laptop which I use both at work and at
home. At work I belong to a domain and our server runs Win
2k server. At home I have a simple peer to peer network
with a Win2K and a Win 98 box on the network. Both of
those boxes have shared folders and shared printers I need
to access. Unfortunately, since we went from Win NT4 on
our office server over to Win 2K and set up some new
domains I am now unable to connect to my shared resources
when I bring my computer home. The message I get is:

"There are currently no logon servers available to service
the logon request"

The only way I can get around this is to logon to my
office server through a VPN.

Any ideas on how I can get my computer to stop searching
for a logon server when I connected to my home network?

Thanks,

David

 

[Paul Adare]

microsoft.public.win2000.security news group, David Swayze

I have a Win2k Pro laptop which I use both at work and at
home. At work I belong to a domain and our server runs Win
2k server. At home I have a simple peer to peer network
with a Win2K and a Win 98 box on the network. Both of
those boxes have shared folders and shared printers I need
to access. Unfortunately, since we went from Win NT4 on
our office server over to Win 2K and set up some new
domains I am now unable to connect to my shared resources
when I bring my computer home. The message I get is:

"There are currently no logon servers available to service
the logon request"

One solution is to use the "net use" command when you're at home.

Assume that your Windows 2000 computer at home is called W2K and your
Windows 98 computer is called WIN98.

When you want to connect from your laptop, at a command prompt, type the
following:

net use \\w2k\ipc$ /u:W2K\user_name

and then press enter. You'll be prompted for the password for the user
account. Enter it and press ENTER again. You will now have established a
secure connection to the W2K computer, and will be able to access all of
its shared resources (at least those to which the account has
permissions).

To connect to the WIN98 box:

net use \\win98\ipc$ /u:win98\user_name

You put these into a batch file and then simply run the batch file when
you're home. You can also hard code the passwords, though that's not
really a good idea.

 

[David Swayze]

Paul:

Thank you for your advice. I will try that this evening
when I am back at home.

David

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