Logon XP prof.: username and password grayed out

From: Al Derouin (_alder@excite.com)
Date: 12/09/02


From: "Al Derouin" <_alder@excite.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 08:48:36 -0800

I am not sure but you perhaps need to go into your
security processes, permissions and audit the time
sequence from a setting of eight hours (for example) to
24 hours, seven days a week. Just a suggestion of where
to look.

Good Luck. Al

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>We ask for tips on the following problem:
>
>We have a network with a large number of XP Professional
>workstations. Most of them remain switched on
>permanantly. After a long idle period, for instance a
>night or a weekend, one can not log on to some of them
>because the username and password fields in the logon
>dialog are grayed out. After rebooting the machine one
>can log on normally.
>
>We work with W2K Advanced Server, Active Directory and
>group policies.
>
>Regards,
>Wilco Cornelisse
>
>wilco.cornelisse@inholland.nl
>.
>



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