RE: Help! User cannot log in on Windows 2k

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I thought that was the problem at first. We have mixed mode users. Most
must change passwords every so many days and this problem did seem to occur
around the time users changed their passwords. Today though one of my
permanent password users experienced the problem.

"Hutch" wrote:

> Out of curiosity...do you expire passwords?? The 98 boxes won't handle that
> properly. It will prompt them to change their password, but I'm almost 100%
> sure that it doesn't update the password in AD.
>
> We had that issue with some 98 boxes, and had to turn of password expiring.
> We also couldn't use Force User to change password at next login, unless they
> were using a 2000 or XP box.
>
> I'm wondering if that is why your users are suddenly losing the ability to
> login on the 98 boxes....I'm trying to remember if that blocked our
> users....it's been about 2 years since I had any 98 boxes...so it's a little
> foggy...hahahahahahaha.
>
> "JoeElla" wrote:
>
> > Hutch,
> > Thank you for replying. All of our 98 machines do have DNS enabled. The
> > 98 machines allow some users to log into the network, but a user will
> > suddenly loose that ability, even though they can still log on through an XP
> > machine.
> >
> > "Hutch" wrote:
> >
> > > For the 98 machines...I assume you are authenticating to an AD domain?? If
> > > so make sure of the following:
> > >
> > > You have installed the Active Directory client on your 98 boxes. You can
> > > get that from your Server 2000 or Server 2003 disk, in the
> > > Clients\Win9x\dsclient.exe. This makes 98 Directory Services aware.
> > >
> > > The other thing you need is to make sure on the network settings of all 98
> > > boxes, that DNS is enabled. We had a problem with some 98 machines, that was
> > > more of us misunderstanding Microsoft...We had thought that having DNS
> > > disabled, meant that the 98 boxes would get their DNS settings from our DHCP
> > > server, like the 2000/XP boxes were. However, disabled means disabled...we
> > > should have known.
> > >
> > > Make sure DNS is running on 98 (if you are using DHCP to hand out networks
> > > settings, as well as IP addressing, then just leave the DNS servers
> > > blank...just put the DNS suffix in, and you are done).
> > >
> > > Once that is done, your 98 boxes should authenticate properly.
> > >
> > > "Hutch" wrote:
> > >
> > > > Not that I am aware of. What errors are your W2K machines getting?? Need
> > > > more information.
> > > >
> > > > "Ray" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi there,
> > > > >
> > > > > I met a weird problem. I patched my servers yesterday, windows 2003
> > > > > enterprise, and then our users using windows 2k cannot log in our domain,
> > > > > but all users can log in on windows xp. Is there any problem with Windows
> > > > > 2003 patches?
> > > > >
> > > > > I appreciate any suggestion.
> > > > >
> > > > > Ray
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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