2K and Laptops

From: Chad (chade222@hotmail.com)
Date: 09/27/02 

From: "Chad" <chade222@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 19:46:15 -0700

I work for a large company in fort worth, Texas and am
in charge of setting up our corporate laptops. I am
wanting to get any info regarding how you setup your
laptops to handle the way users log into your network vs.
logging into the laptop while in a remote situation. As
of right now I have the laptops setup to allow the user
to log into the network as they would any network. Now
when that same user takes their laptop home or on the
road, obviously there is no network to allow the user to
authenticate to, so we setup local user accounts. This is
generating a few gripes from my users about having 2
passwords and such, one for the local account and one for
their network account, but this seems to be a safer
practice than using the cached logons that are default in
win2K. If I were to setup or allow the credentials to be
cached, would this not allow a hacker (a very determined
and excellent hacker) access to the cached network
password? Please help, I am being attacked from my
superiors to change my image for corp. laptops to satisfy
the complaints of our end users, which in reality it
should be this is the way it is deal with it. Thanks for
any info you can give me. At this point I am about to
have to change about 8 images to allow cached information
to be stored on the laptops. 8 because we have such a
wide variety of laptop models in our environment.

Chad E. Hutto, A+, MCP.

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