Re: Setting number of cached logons to more than 0 seems unlimited.

From: news-server.nyc.rr.com (brian.hehir@REMOVETOEMAIL.hhsinternational.com)
Date: 11/27/02


From: "news-server.nyc.rr.com" <brian.hehir@REMOVETOEMAIL.hhsinternational.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 01:59:08 GMT


Do you mean "Number of previous logons to cache (in case domain controller
is unavailable)" ?

This is the number of discreet user logons to cache i.e. different users;
not the number of cached logons each user can make. I've not heard of this
50 logon limit... sure it's not PEBK&C

"Mark" <mdfanny@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:c6a99eba.0211261235.62a6cfea@posting.google.com...
> Greetings,
>
> I have a new Dell notebook with XP Pro on it. I was playing around
> with setting the number of cache logons counts and discovered that
> setting it to 0 works. But setting it to 1,2,3,10... makes no
> difference. I logged on using my corporate domain credentials over 60
> times and gave up. I tried this on a Tablet PC and it works the way
> it's supposed to. If I set it to 3, that's all I get.
>
> I wish I could duplicate this on every notebook. That would solve my
> problem of notebook users away from the office for an extended period
> of time being limited to 50 logons.
>
> Does anyone have an explanation?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark



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