Laptop Logins

Your users may have accounts that were setup by adding them to the users group from the user list in the domain. If they try to login to the workstation only the system may not recognize the login. Have them leave the login set to the domain and the system should log them in using cached information. Otherwise you may set up another account just on the laptop but it will not have their desktop settings and will create a new directory in Documents and Settings\username.
You can check the laptop by going to c:\Documents and Settings\ and look at the user names. If they read "username.domain" they were created by adding users from the domain if the names read "username" then they are local users.

Sometimes it is using the cached copy and sometimes it is not. When they can't get in they see a message that says something like not domain controller available. It should use the cached copy but it is not.

Create a local login for the person for when they are at home. When they go home and use this account, the log on locally and can use everything on the laptop however they want. When the Windows 2000 Logon Screen comes up, they can pick between the network domain, for work, and the local computer domain for when they are at home. Hope this helps, Jeremy

Win2k should cache the domain username as long as the EU is able to login while connected to the network at least one time. I wouldn't even create an account on the local machine unless you need it for a specific pupose or if the EU request it. Like the the techie above states above, you can create an account on the local machine as a last resort but it will only create a new profile.

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