same login-name

George,

Although sharing the same login name is generally not advisable (for security reasons) it shouldn't cause any corruption if your users use the same server individually. However, if you have more than one server, in the same domain, and your users logon simultaneously to seperate servers, depending upon the apps they run (you didn't detail what apps they are actually running) you may run into probs...

Hope this helps.

-Darren

This may not be part of what you're asking, but it would be an issue at our site.

If you use another application such as SQL Server that uses Windows authentication, and you try to give each of them access to the same database, they will have thesame username in that database. That may mess up audit logs and the like if you use just that username and not the login domain in the logs.

Thanx for your concern, both of you. Security is not an issue here. We don't use databases that use Windows authentification. Is there a tech-article around that describes this log-in, telling it's no problem?

Depends of your database but if your users make some custom settings in their roaming profile at log off will be saved to the same location and never the users will have their own profile. Also you can have problems with printers or mailing program,password expires and others NT futures.

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