Are the laptop computers also using NT or something else?
There are 2 possible issues here:
1. If the laptop is using NT, then users are logging on to the local machine (instead of the domain) before dialing-in and authenticating to the domain. There are two different accounts here: the user account on the local computer and the user account on the domain. The only way to synchronize these is manually.
2. If you are using Win9x/ME, then the password is cached locally. In Win9x, it is possible to have 2 different passwords: the domain password and the local Windows password. Usually when a domain password change occurs from the laptop (if done properly), these 2 passwords remain synched. If done imporperly or from another location, then there is now way to resynch the passwords automatically. Therefore, your mobile users need to do 1 of 2 things everytime they change their password: either do it from the laptop (properly), or remove the users .pwl file from the Windows directory (on the laptop) (as mentioned in Answer 2). What this causes to happen is that the next time the user logs on to the laptop, Windows will no longer find a locally cached password, will ask the user to verify the new password, and the 2 willbe resynched again. This will have to occur each time the user changes his domain password.
Hope this helps.
