Re: administer user credentials

i like to keep all computers on our domain because we move them from job site
to job site and on some sites we are able to create vpn connections.

While on the subject of credentials, I have a remote user that yesterday was
updating a piece of software and somehow windows has lost his credentials.
After logging out he can no longer log in. I had him log into owa on another
pc to make sure he was using the right password, but the remote laptop will
not let him in. I am able to remote in (via LogMeIn remote software), log in
as administrator, and see his files under his user name, but he gets the
"cannot log in now because the server is not available" error when trying to
log into this laptop. Is there any way to get his credentials back to the
laptop (refresh) without connecting the laptop physically to our home network.


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

duke <duke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have users at job sites with no web access. I want to be able to
install this user onto a laptop, credentials and all, while logged in
as administrator on the machine (connected to the home network with
SBS). Is there a way to do this? The only way I've ever been able
to get the user's credentials stored is to log in as the user on the
machine while its connected to our home network so it can
authenticate on our server and store the credentials.... not a good
thing when I have to call an existing employee and beg him for his
password.



If you have the laptop in hand and want to log in as the user, you will need
their password. You can always change it.

That said, I'm really not sure what you're trying to accomplish. If you are
talking about computers for users who will never connect to your domain
directly (either on your LAN or via another network connected to yours via a
WAN link) then why join them to the domain at all?


If I've misunderstood, please post back.



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