Re: Logon without authenticating with the DC

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I am not sure that I follow this. What exactly do you think a domain
login does?

To make a domain login, you need to access the security database for the
domain (to verify your username and password, etc). The only way to do this
is to find a domain controller. The login operation doesn't involve anything
beyond this. If your domain is set up to so that clients run a logon script,
then that is a different matter. But it is not part of the domain logon
process.

On the slow login question, do you have a LAN to LAN VPN connection, or
are the clients "dialup" type VPNs?

Chris wrote:
> We have a number of XPe machines whose Domain Controller (Win 2003
> Server) is located over a VPN. Sometimes the logins are very slow
> and I'm investigating possible solutions for this. I'm aware that
> there are various reasons for this problem.
>
> Is it possible for a user to log in to the domain without
> establishing any connection to the Domain Controller? Is there a
> setting somewhere that can control this?
>
> The user and running applications would still need access to the
> local and remote resources. For example, SQL replication and MSMQ
> remote public queues.


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