automatic logon to a domain using a usb ethernet adapter

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I am administering a touchscreen workstation running win2k. This particular terminal has no keyboard and it's ethernet adapter is usb-based. The ethernet adapter model is a linksys USB200M. Since there is no keyboard this machine will need to perform an automatic logon to the win2k domain.

A problem occurs when performing an automatic logon and Windows 2000 reports that it is unable to retrieve its roaming user profile from the Windows 2000 Server. I believe this is related to the fact that the terminal's ethernet adapter is connected via usb and this usb device driver has not finished loading before the automatic logon is attempted.

There is no problem when logging on manually by typing a username and password with an attached keyboard. Or, if the user logs off and then immediately logs on again, the terminal has no problem retrieving the roaming user profile from the server. This seems to be further evidence that it's an issue related to the loading of the network adapter's drivers at boot time.

Does anyone have any advice on how I might work around this problem. Is it possible to automatically log on to a local profile on the terminal and then run a script which would log the user off and log on to the network domain and retrieve the roaming profile. This would essentially automate the process I described in the previous paragraph, except without any user interaction and hence no keyboard input required.