Help with Windows NT Domain Controller Authentication
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Hello, It is mystery with Windows networking. I have a Windows NT Server Domain Controller that hold Active Directory database. At a client, I added it to the domain and login with a domain account, It worked well. But if I shutdown server, I still remain logon from client by using that domain account. I thought there must be an existence of domain controller for validation and authentication. But in my case, which done for that role? Does anyone explain it for me? My both domain controller and client are running Windows 2003 Server (standard version). Thanks for reading.
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Hello, It is mystery with Windows networking. I have a Windows NT Server Domain Controller that hold Active Directory database. At a client, I added it to the domain and login with a domain account, It worked well. But if I shutdown server, I still remain logon from client by using that domain account. I thought there must be an existence of domain controller for validation and authentication. But in my case, which done for that role? Does anyone explain it for me? My both domain controller and client are running Windows 2003 Server (standard version). Thanks for reading.
Windows operating systems support cached logons for the case where no domain controller is available at logon time. This covers cases such as mobile users who need to be able to log on to their laptops while away from the office. You can control how many cached logons are kept using Group Policy. The setting is under Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > Security Options and is called 'Interactive logon: Number of previous logons to cache (in case domain controller is not available)'. Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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Windows operating systems support cached logons for the case where no domain controller is available at logon time. This covers cases such as mobile users who need to be able to log on to their laptops while away from the office. You can control how many cached logons are kept using Group Policy. The setting is under Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > Security Options and is called 'Interactive logon: Number of previous logons to cache (in case domain controller is not available)'. Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder