Re: Wireless Clients

I wasn't aware that accounts were dropped from the domain if they are
"unreachable"

"Manny Borges" wrote:

> Bill, I have never seen what you are describing. And the acount is there,
> obviously, since this poster has to delete the old account.
>
> Jez,
>
> This sounds like a wireless issue. Depending on how you are authenticating
> there can be DC communication issues. Specifically I have seen this when
> using certificates for authentication, but I wouldn't doubt it would happen
> with other forms.
> The Wireless acces point was our issue.
> It would intermittently allow communications to the DCs and during log on
> the systems started to be unable to talk to the LDAP service.
> For a while they worked with cached credentials, and then they gave up the
> ghost so to speak.
> When I got pulled into the mess several clients had been off the line long
> enough for thier computer account passwords to be expired.
> This is a root issue for you I believe.
> After verifiying connectivity right click the computer acount in the domain
> and reset the account. And look at your wireless components.
>
> "Bill Grant" wrote:
>
> > How long are the laptops disconnected from the network? They will be
> > dropped from the domain if they are unreachable for a while.
> >
> > Jez wrote:
> > > I have a w2k3 domain with 50 wired clients and 2 laptop wireless
> > > clients, Every so often, either of the wifi clients will loose its AD
> > > membership. When you logon it tells you that the domain is
> > > unavailbale or the computer account in the domain is missing. The
> > > wireless network is functioning fine at this point.
> > > The only way I can seem to cure this problem is to remove the laptop
> > > from the domain and then join it again. This will cure the problem
> > > for a few weeks and then it will re-occur.
> > > Can anyone shed some light on this?
> >
> >
> >
.

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