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by sapinto

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I'm running a Win2k domain with a mixture of xp, 95 and 98 clients,. The problem is that recently, three pc's(one 95 and two 98's) are failing to recognize the cient's username and password. I have to go to the pc and login as administrator, and then log off before the user can login with their own username and password. How can I resolve this?

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by rabbit_runner

Do you have WINS installed? Also, what protocol are you using? Do you have TCP/IP? Then, how is it assigned to the workstations, DHCP or Static?

I would recommend using DHCP to assign the IP address, and also use WINS. This makes certain thatWin9x systems can find and use the services on the server.

This is something you may want to check.

Best of luck

by acattr

if answer one doesnt help. Force the 98 box to authenticate using a lmhosts file(no extensions - lmhosts)

go to c:\windows

place the lmhosts file in there, containing this one line of code

ipaddress PDCservername #PRE #DOM:domainname
example:

192.168.0.2 PinePDCServer #PRE #DOM:pinedomain

It is case sensitive. The 98 box will forcefully connect.

by sapinto

I've checked on the affected systems. WINS is resolved through DHCP. Besides that, now I'm getting hassles logging in as either myself or administrator on the affected machines. The message I get is the domain password you supplied is incorrect, or acces to your login server has been denied. I have to reboot several times before I can login.

by sapinto

Could ny problem have something to do with local and domain security policy. I noticed this problem after I changed the security policies from the defaults

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