Different Color User Icons

[LJ]

We are currently having troubles with a web box
authenticating with some user groups that exist in a
Windows 2000 mixed mode.

The only difference that we can find with the user groups
that don't work was that they were originially created in
a NT4 environment and that the user icons that are in
the "Members" list show up with white or a grey hair
color.

The groups that do work include groups that were created
in the NT4 native move and the Windows 2000 mixed mode.
All user icons in the "Members" list have black hair.

What does the difference in hair color mean?

Thanks in advance for any responses.

 

[Chriss3]

Hair Color of the "Person" Icon for a User Group Becomes Gray If the Group
Contains More Than 500 Users
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;281923

 

[Joe Richards [MVP]]

The hair color just indicates that the user was found in a lookup of the user.
The number that get looked up is configurable and is simply a UI feature. There
is one case where it can indicate a problem and that is if the user hasn't been
replicated to the Global Catalog being checked for the above queries. If you
know that your GCs are all replicating fine, you can ignore the hair business.

What is the actual errors you are seeing?

 

[LJ]

Thank you for taking the time to respond to my post on
Microsoft's News Groups. What we are experiencing is
this.We have recently purchased a Neoteris box to allow
outside users access to our LAN through SSL. We have a
group that essentially contains all the users in our
domain and we wish to give them default access to the
Neoteris box. However when we add this group to the
permissions list of the Neoteris box none of the users
are authenticated. However if we were to add smaller
groups, say department groups rather than an all
encompassing domain group, with the same users everything
works perfectly fine. The only difference between the
groups that we can tell are the number of users, the user
icons inside the domain users group has grey hair for the
user icons and all other groups have black hair in
the "Members" list.

To me if it was a GC problem wouldn't the user accounts
show up gray in all groups and not just the 1 or 2 all
encompassing groups?