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How do cached logins work. when my LAN connection is unplugged am still able to login to my domain.

How this cached logins work . how do i disable or enable this ?

When i create & share a folder & go to security tab i see some accts are already listed in security. these i believe are default ACLs. from where do i get these accts in security tabs.

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by sgt_shultz

i believe you can do what you wish with cached logons. sorry to not be ultimately helpful but there are number of excellent articles about this at support.microsoft.com. to find them, i searched the knowlegebase for Windows 2000 using keywords 'cached profile' to see them. hih
re the security question. i dunno that one either but have also seen articles speaking to that in the mskb

by bfilmfan

To disable cached credentials, you will need to modify the GPO settings which are being applied by the domain or organizational unit on the workstation:

Launch Control Panel, then select Administrative Tools, then select Local Security Policy.

In the left-hand pane of the console select Local Policies, and then select the appropriate folder for the option you wish to modify.

In the right-hand pane, right-click the policy you wish to modify and select Properties from the pop-up menu. The property sheet for that policy appears. Make changes as appropriate for the policy you are configuring.

Security Options
Security Options govern specific configuration options that are used to increase or decrease security on a given computer. These options are assigned to the computer, not users or groups, unlike User Rights Assignment. All users of this computer are subject to these policies. The following Security Options deal with authentication-related issues and are located in the Security Options folder under Local Security Policy. To modify a policy, double-click it and make the necessary changes.

Require domain controller authentication to unlock: Prevents a user from using cached credentials to log on to a computer that has been locked.

Setting that policy to ENFORCE will require a domain controller authentication before a workstation can be used. It can cause a laptop to be unusuable away from the office.

The cached credentials are stored under HKLM\Security, which by default the Administrators group does not have permissions for read access. Ususally only the SYSTEM account has full access.

by ctmoore1998

You can use the GPEDIT.MSC properties to control whether you allow cached logons or not. The security that is present when you create a folder is inherited from the parent by default.

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