Re: Windows login error.....just 2 machines

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 08/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 05:34:43 -0700

Hi,

thanks for the reply.... how do i assign it manually and
also how do i make sure it doesn't conflict with the
other existing ips.

thanks
ash

>-----Original Message-----
>ash rust wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have two machines on the network that give this
error
>> when a user attempts to login:
>>
>> windows cannot create the profile
>> \\servername\profiles$\user.pds
>>
>> This error only occurs on 2 machines and the users can
>> login fine elsewhere. Also when a user who has not
worked
>> on the machine before tries to login it says that the
>> domain does not exist and sends them back to the login
>> screen.
>>
>> The machines are running win 2000 and the server runs
>> server 2003.
>>
>> I have no clue what the problem is except that it must
be
>> machine specific as thy can login on other machines.
>>
>> Any help would be most appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Ash Rust
>
>Are the machine on a manually assigned IP address, or
are you using
>DHCP? I have had this to me on a couple of occasions
when the machine
>was using DHCP. I assume it sometimes takes a little
longer to negotiate
>with the DHCP server and so things aren't fully ready
when you try to
>log in. Since I assigned the machine an IP address
manually it has been
>fine.
>.
>

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