Nortel VPN client and logon problem

[Guest]

Hi,

i just installed XP-SP2 on a second partition on my machine.
i have defined 2 users with Admin privileges:
User1 : local
User2 : on my company domain.
This setup works perfectly on win2k
In order to acces my company domain I'm using a Nortel VPN client. This
tools is launched AFTER the logon and allows the connection to the company
domain.

The problem is the first logon.
Since the VPN client is launched after the logon , I got a "doamin not
available" denial when I try to logon as User2.

Any idea how to "synchronize" the logon and to workaround this problem?

 

[Chris Priede]

Hi,

i just installed XP-SP2 on a second partition on my machine.
In order to acces my company domain I'm using a Nortel VPN client.
This tools is launched AFTER the logon and allows the connection to
the company domain. Since the VPN client is launched after the
logon , I got a "doamin not available" denial when I try to logon as
User2.

Have you ever logged on to the company domain with this Windows
installation?

The way that works is: Windows caches credentials from a previous successful
domain logon for a set (by your domain administrator) amount of time. If
you didn't use it long enough, you'd also lose the ability to log on with
cached credentials on your old setup. Your new installation has no cached
credentials (and can't contact a domain controller at the office because the
VPN is down), resulting in a slight "chicken and egg" problem -- which,
particularly for a laptop, is most easily solved by taking it to the office,
where you can connect to the local network and log on for the first time.

If that's not practical, you can try to log on with your local account,
start the VPN and attempt to authenticate by mapping a remote share at a
command prompt, like so:

net use \\server\share password /userOMAIN\username
pushd \\server\share

That should work, although I am not certain it will give you cached
credentials for interactive logon -- I have not tried it for that purpose.

 

[Guest]

Well not very succesful so far but your help is much appreciated.

I'm affraid you're right, I will have to drive to the office.
As you said the point is that I NEVER connected this account so far under XP.

Is there any way to get the information from my Win2K partition?

AT

 

[Chris Priede]

Hi,

Is there any way to get the information from my Win2K partition?

No, there is not. There is another potential workaround that may work
better, though. Give it a try before you make the drive.

1) Log on with your local user account and make sure the VPN is connected

2) _Right_ click a program on your Start menu (it is not particularly
important which -- for example, you can use Command Prompt) and choose "Run
As..."

3) Choose to run the program as another user and enter your domain user
info. Remember to supply the domain (DOMAIN\username).

If you do it correctly and there are no other issues involved, the program
should start. You should then be able to close it, log off, and log back on
with your domain account.

By the way, this probably should go without saying, but -- did you
successfuly join the computer to the domain?

 

[Guest]

Chris you're the man!!!

Thank you so much , i wasted 5 days on this f@¤%g problem.
I how you one beer if you come to france.

Kind regards

AT