Remove domain logon error

[druiddk]

Hi!

We have a few laptop users that logon to the domain here and at home (without connection to the DC).

When they are here at the office no problems of course, however when they are at home XP will popup an annoying error that there is no connection to the DC give the option of clicking OK and then everything is fine anyway.

I have gotten complaints about this so trying to figure out how to disable it!

Thank you in advance!

[cluberti]

You'll find that there's an option to cach a certain number of logons in Group Policy (it's also a registry setting). This should make that error go away:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen.../en-us/579.mspx

[druiddk]

Hi cluberti!

Thank you for replying with this URL.

I have reviewed it and it seems that this feature is already enabled per default with a setting of 10.

Hence I do not think it will remove the popup to change this to a higher value (only decrease security).

However! I have just discovered these values in the registry I will test them out and let you know

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"ReportControllerMissing"="FALSE"
"ReportDC"=dword:00000000

[cluberti]

You can also enable userenv logging to determine the root cause of the issue as well. Are these users configured to use roaming profiles?

[druiddk]

Well the reason they are getting the error are when they are at home or at a customers place and using the laptop obviously they cant connect to the domain controller so it gives the error.

I can safely say they are VERY happy that the error is gone