windows laptop clients

[D-ma]

I’m trying to configure several windows xp laptop machines to authenicate with our Mac OS X 10.4.9 Server.

It an OD Master and I’ve set it up as a PDC, the clients can join the domain fine, I’ve configured both roaming and local profiles and home directories and these are all ok (after a bit of fiddling around).

But when I disconnect the laptop from the network and try to log in I get the error message:

‘The system cannot log you on now because the domain [domain name] is not available.”

This is fairly obvious as the laptop is disconnected.

Is there a way of caching the authenication details for the user on the local machine so that they can log in offline? – similar to an Active Directory profile?

Surely someone out there has tried to configure a pc laptop to authenicate to a Mac network?

Any help or advice would be appreciated – Thanks.

[D-ma]

Thanks for the reply Josh,

my pc clients are all windows xp service pack 2 except one vista client.

[D-ma]

ok – I’ve sussed it out!

It was a problem with me rather than the system.

I was logging on with the users Full Name instead of their Short Name.
When connected to the domain environment, the Samba server could do the conversion and allow the login to proceed,
however when offline the local workstation could not resolve the Full Name to username and process the login.

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