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Win98 loggin' to a NT4 domain

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by fabio_c

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Hi all,
I have a big problem with some Win98 clients I have in my Lan. The fact is that I never had problems like these; I formatted two of them, and now they don't get policies anymore. I mean, when you switch the PC on it looks for usernames and passwords, but it performs operations that with certain accounts should be forbidden. Moreover, there's an alert script coming from the server, but these two computers don't receive it. The configuration of the network should be ok: fixed IP, WINS isthe server, Gateway and DNS is the router.
What should I check more?
Please help if you can, because it'an urgent thing.
Bye, Fabio Casale

P.S. sorry for the lenght of the post

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by pcjockey2000

Have you turned on the user profiles in Win 98? When you boot the Win 98 PC does it load the script from the server when it connects? If you have turned on the profile feature in Win 98 check that the components of the configuration match those of the working Win 98 PC's. You say that you formatted the PC's, did you ghost the drives to put on the OS or did you do fresh installs? A ghost of a drive with Network drivers installed can sometimes cause havoc when both the ghost machine and the drive that supplied the ghost are on the same network. Also, check the names of the Win 98 machines and make sure they are unique and that the IPs are unique.

Hope this helps.

by bblunden

I know this is a basic answer, but it sounds like you have the user set to use the wrong script. Check the User Profile in User Manager for Domain and make sure its pointing to the right script (if any at all).

Good luck!

by braveh4rt

You said that you log on with some users it get forbidden. check if you log on to the correct domain and you have a uniqe name and ip for each pc. check your ip address , maybe there are same ip address.
and make sure you set the NIC correctly

thank you

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