Logon credentials

[Guest]

How long are logon credentials cached for a user on a Windows XP machine? We have some machines when disconnected from the network that will not allow access using cached credentials.

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

How long are logon credentials cached for a user on a Windows XP
machine? We have some machines when disconnected from the network
that will not allow access using cached credentials.

Hi

The logon credentials are cached forever unless the registry value
CachedLogonsCount is set to 0. You should check if that value is set
on the troublesome computers.


Cached Logon Information
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;172931


Note that the CachedLogonsCount is a number indicating for how many
users the computer should remember cached credentials for, and not
how many times a user can logo on with cached credentials in a row.

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

So if logon credentials are saved forever, any idea what would
cause a machine to lose them for 1 person and not another?

That is very strange indeed, I have no idea what can case that.

And how does it decide who to remember credentials for? I would
assume if we set the CachedLogonsCount to 3, it would remember
the 3 recent users into that machine.

Correct.