Re: Domain Login failure

Geoff332 <Geoff332@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

I work remotely. I typically login to my work domain on my laptop,
even when it is not on the network (WORK\a.user). A week or so ago,
this login simply failed: I had been logged in and was unable to log
in a few hours later. I received the same error one receives on a bad
password. I can think of no reason for this: I made no changes to the
password, I wasn't connected to any domain, and I didn't make any
software changes. The domain doesn't enforce any password expiration
policy. I double checked with the sys admin: he confirmed they'd made
no changes and was at a loss to explain the problems I am having.

Since then, I've only been able to log on to this machine using the
local machine's administrator account. My domain username fails.
However, when I log in to the work server remotely, I can access it
using the same (old) username and password without any problem. This
all suggests the problem is on the local computer, not the domain.

Since I work remotely, it's difficult to connect to the domain for any
substantial period of time (and I am not a domain administrator). I
can't do anything with the WORK/a.user account and haven't set-up the
LOCAL/a.user account.

This problem has me bewildered - can anyone offer any explanation or,
more usefully, a fix to this.

Thanks,
Geoff.

I'm not sure, honestly (you might check your event logs) but I have to
question the need (or benefit!) of your computer belonging to the domain to
begin with. If you're never (or very very infrequently) going to have direct
contact with a DC (VPN clients don't generally count) perhaps this is not
worth keeping up. I don't join my remote/home-user clients' laptops to their
domains.


.

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