Re: XP Credentials
From: Roger Abell (MVPNoSpam@asu.edu)
Date: 02/21/03
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From: Roger Abell <MVPNoSpam@asu.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 15:48:58 -0800
"Ann" <Magnolia4me@hotmail.com> wrote in news:068001c2d924$e1742310
$3001280a@phx.gbl:
> We found it! It's the Auto time sync
> to "time.windows.com" - we finally put a sniffer on one of
> the boxes to see what was going on and it was going out to
> the Internet to authenticate time. It did it every couple
> of minutes, so our 10 minute time-out session didn't work,
> and since you never lost connection with the Internet, no
> prompt for password. I turned off that "feature" - which
> is automatically turned on with XP. It is a "feature" with
> Win 2000 as well, but you have to manually turn it on.
>
> I now have one less headache for the week. thanks
>
That is interesting.
When one joins an uplevel domain this is supposed to be automatically
changed so that the machine will time sync to the domain controllers.
-- Roger Abell MS MVP (Windows Security)
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