Set cached domain credentials to never expire? 1

[ncolsgk]

Is there a registry hack to allow cached domain passwords to never expire. Im shipping three latptops to the UK that have been added to the domain. Im concerned that one day they will get a message stating that the domain controller cannot be contacted...

Ideas?

 

[linney]

See if there is anything mentioned in "Manage Passwords"?

Another thing you can look at is this -

306992 - HOW TO: Manage Stored User Names and Passwords on a Computer in a Domain in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306992&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

306541 - HOW TO: Manage Stored User Names and Passwords on a Computer That Is Not in a Domain in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306541&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

Behavior of stored user names and passwords

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281660/?FR=1

Share-level mapped network drives are not connected after you restart your computer

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;283492&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

 

[Davetoo]

The users will not get locked out of their systems if they're not connected to the domain. The system will use locally cached credentials forever. Their accounts will "expire" on the domain, but it won't effect their ability to logon to their machines.

I'm Certifiable, not cert-ified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

 

[IllogicallyLogical]

I am going to agree with "Davetoo" on the fact that they do not expire. The expiration information for an AD account is stored on the domain not the local computer. The cached account will not know it is expired until it contacts the Domain Controller. Read through some of the links here and you will find several references to the fact that they DO NOT expire.

http://www.ask.com/web?q=do+cached+credentials+expire?&qsrc=0&o=0&l=dir

Joey
CCNA, MCP, A+, Network+, Wireless#

 

[ncolsgk]

Thank you.