[Samba] Samba PDC logon without connexion

Tomasz Chmielewski mangoo at mch.one.pl
Fri Aug 26 20:06:07 GMT 2005


Paul Gienger schrieb:
>>By default, you can logon 10 times without a network connection.
>>You can set it up to 50, or set to 0 if you don't like it.
> 
> 
> This can't possibly be accurate.  I've got people here with laptops that
> haven't touched our network in months and reboot their machine every day.
> 
> Ok, I dug around in the Local Security policy and it doesn't appear (to me)
> to be the number of login sessions to allow for a particular user, but the
> number of users to remember.  Soooo, you can have 10 (the last 10) users
> able to log in on your machine in case the DC is unavailable.
> 
> There is another option to 'require domain controller auth to unlock
> workstation.  You might want to try that if you want to disable the feature.

I haven't tried that, but 10 is what Microsoft documentation says:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/gp/579.asp

Number of previous logons to cache (in case domain controller is not 
available)

(...)

In this policy setting, a value of 0 disables logon caching. Any value 
above 50 will only cache 50 logon attempts. For servers, this policy is 
defined by default in Local Computer Policy and the default value is 10 
logons.


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