Re: Cached Domain Credentials and Home Network
From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 05/17/04
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Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 23:41:15 -0400
Andy wrote:
> I have a win2k laptop that is joined to a win2k domain at work.
> At home, I have a wireless router that I am trying to use to
> implement a home network (currently, this is not connected to the
> internet, but soon it will be). I have a winXP desktop PC connected
> to the router via ethernet that I want to use as a file / printer
> server.
>
> I bring my laptop home, & want to print out stuff on the printer by
> connecting (wirelessly) to my home network. I want to log onto my
> laptop using cached credentails (i.e. using my work domain account
> login), as I may need to access encrypted files that are keyed to
> that account. So I turn on my laptop, resume my (suspended) session
> from work & plug in my wireless network card.
>
> Now, I have a problem. As soon as I plug in the wireless card, all
> file system operations on the laptop seem to be delayed by several
> seconds. Something is plainly timing out. For example, displaying
> the properties of the wireless network connection on the laptop seems
> to take ~10s.
What happens if you do a full shutdown, restart, log in with cached
credentials, and THEN plug in your wireless card & see if you get a new IP?
I suspect that your hibernated/standby status may have a lot to do with
this.
>
> I suspect the problem is that the laptop is searching for the domain
> controller (for the work domain) and not finding it (not surprising
> as I am at home). I am not sure, though.
>
> How can I diagnose what is going wrong?
>
> (If anyone has any suggestions for how best to set such a system up I
> would also be grateful. Please don't suggest renaming the home
> workgroup to the work domain name, as my wife has a similar
> requirement and her work domain name is not the same as mine. I have
> already setup a share on the WinXP machine & can access this (after
> the usual pause) providing that I use the "attche under a different
> username" option for file sharing. Without this share, I cannot seem
> to see the winXP printer at all).
>
> Tkanks!
>
> Andy
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