No logon Servers available

[TobyA]

Dear All,

I have set up some users to work from home over an ADSL connection. The users are running a piece of software called Secure Remote, which detects when they are trying to access a resource on the network and prompts them to authenticate with the firewall.

They are getting authenticed alright, and they are able to ping the right servers (I added entries for the servers in the local hosts file) but they cannot browse any network drives. The error message that appears says something like "There are no logon servers available to service your logon request".

I've added WINS entries on the clients (W2K Pro) but they are still unable to browse the server. On the server we are running W2K Server with Group Policy.

They are using Sygate Personal Firewall Pro......but they should get prompted if it doesn't know whether to allow / block the traffic. It shouldn't just block it (although I haven't tested that yet).

Does anyone have any bright ideas? There's a nice shiny star in it for you

Thanks in advance

Toby

 

[danbiggs]

You can specify logon servers to use for specific domains in the lmhosts file - something like this:

192.168.0.1 SERVER #PRE #DOMOMAIN

...tells Windows to contact SERVER if it needs to authenticate on the DOMAIN domain. This may be helpful when try to troubleshoot name resolution problems.

 

[TobyA]

Thanks for your response.

I've given this a go, but unfortunately it didn't seem to make any difference.

The user is logging onto the computer computer using a cached domain account, so Windows authentication shouldn't be a problem........