Windows 2000 Laptop Logon

[EricS]

I am having an issue with a few laptops. Seems that when
the user log's on while connected to the nework everything
works great. However, when the user is off the network -
after typing in the password the system hangs at the
background. No start menu, No program icons, Cannot Ctrl-
Alt-Delete. The only way to get the system to respond is
to hold down the on off button and shut the system down...

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Are they trying to log onto the domain offline? If so cached logons need to
be enabled in security policy and even if it is it takes a while for the
computer to determine that a domain controller is not available. If they are
trying to logon to a local machine account, it should no take very long
unless a script is trying to map drives, etc to computers that are not
available. -- Steve

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
I am having an issue with a few laptops. Seems that when
the user log's on while connected to the nework everything
works great. However, when the user is off the network -
after typing in the password the system hangs at the
background. No start menu, No program icons, Cannot Ctrl-
Alt-Delete. The only way to get the system to respond is
to hold down the on off button and shut the system down...
.
unplug from network and restart and check Event Viewer

sound like a service is hanging