Re: Primary user login problems

Okay, I have taken a little long to reply because I have been trying
everything to see exactly when the problem occurs

Now this is the simplest example. First some setup stuff

The workstatio is a TC4200 running tablet XP
The Tablet has a docing station
The cabled network is disabled in network control panel
The wireless is the LAN Connect
Offline files are about 2.1 GB

I have now gone through all the offline files stuff I coudl find, I have set
local group policy to get me verbose logging, I have set the preffered
network, I have added the warning key to the registry to name a few.

This is the best way I can replicate the problem

I power up the machine. I log in as the primary user! If I open outlook and
run as the primary user (also set to run RPC over HTTPS) then all works well.

Then I close outlook, even if or I reboot log off then this is what happens.
I open Outlook and connect to the server using the secondary email address
(while logged in as the primary on the XP box)

All seems fine then when the background offline files sync kicks in all hell
breaks lose (so to say) all connected shares (well at least they were
connected before I launched Outlook) are suddenly disconnected offline
folders asks to log in and then I get "multiple connections to
a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name
are not allowed. disconnec all previous connections to the server or shared
resource and try again".

Even if I shut down Outlook and use task kill I get that. On the server it
tells me the tablet is still connecting as the secondary user, even though
outlook is killed.

So tell me is this an outlook or an XP or a server problem?

--
Warren - All limits are man made


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

In news:6EF4C421-F3DD-4C2D-8F93-BAFB352FA542@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Warren Machanik <WarrenMachanik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
Sorry I perhaps should not have included the Windows Offline files
here. But that is the way the problem is found. When the laptop is
reconnected to the local LAN (after being on the road) then it asks
to log in again, if you try and use explorer to open any of the
network mapped drives, or you try access it via the network
neighorhood then XP tells you you are not connected to the resource.

If I press cancel when it asks me to log in then about 5 mins later
all works fine.

It may perhap be related to Offline folders (of the file .not. Outlook
type).

It's an offline *files* issue - not *folders* (the latter means Outlook).

See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q290523 - I
think this may be related. You aren't using VPN at this point, of course -
but it sounds like Windows XP doesn't know the server is available upon your
intial login. I'll bet if you plug in the computer to the network, power it
up, and then wait a bit before logging in, this doesn't happen....

You may want to enable the "always wait for network...." GPO setting, so
that when you connect to the network you won't be logging in using your
cached credentials before the network connection is fully initiated - what
it's doing now is called "fast logon"

To change this, you'd go to computer config \ admin templates \ system \
logon.
Double-click "Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon" and
enable it.
You could set this in the client computers GPO - or create your own & link
it to the MyBusiness OU or SBSComputers OU.

Also we are using SBS2003 and Outlook 2003 so I would assume
that Outlook offline folders are not longer really an issue, even
though RPC / cached mode is essentially offline folders of the
Outlook type as far as I am aware.

Yes, but not related to windows offline files.....and much more graceful
than the old OST / offline folders in previous versions of Outlook.



In news:F9DF810A-78C9-4F0B-B5C8-6D4A66CAECAF@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Warren Machanik <WarrenMachanik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
All this was working fine until about a week ago.

I have a user that runs 3 emails off the one machine. I setup
outlook profiles for the user so that he can access each email and
I have got RPC over HTTPS working fine. The user logs into the
server using one user login and then connects to the emails via any
of the three. All was working well with offline folders for his
work off line, and the emails working fine.

About a week ago everything stopped working well (it works after
much futzing) what happens is when he reconnects to the network as
the offline files synchronize it asks for a users name (initially I
thought it was outlook asking but I linked it to the
synchronization) now becuase the user is connectted via outlook XP
will not log in as the primary logged. If I use the net use command
and delete all the drive mappings then try recreate it tells me I
cannot connect to the network with the username that is not the
same as is already connected error.

This is fustrating because the one uses RPC only and the other
actually uses the network resources.

I'm confused here. Offline Files in Windows has nothing to do with
Offline Folders/cached mode/OST files in Outlook.

Can you be a little more specific? If this is actually an Offline
Files issue, a) maybe you don't want offline files on a
LAN-connected computer and b) are multiple people using this
computer to log into the domain?




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