Hello,
for several weeks windows 9x client can't log into our domain, strange thing
is that if the user is less than 6 charecters it can log into the domain,
articles has suggested changing the local domain policy NTLM to NTLM 2,
but this changes eliminated the abilitiy to log in at all.
any one?! suggestions?

Regards,

Dror Admon
Operations & Infrastructure Manager
Sheba Medical Center

Re: Windows 9x user longer than 5 chars can't log into windows 2003 do by Steven

Steven
Sun May 01 19:12:38 CDT 2005

The user name or password?? If you are talking about user name that is
highly unusual and I have never heard of such. There can be a minimum length
password but that should not be specific to W9X users. It may help to check
the security logs on the domain controllers to see if any failed logons have
been recorded and the reasons why. In Windows 2003 I believe that auditing
of account logon for success and failure is enable by default, but you may
want to check in Domain Controller Security Policy.

The usual problems with W9X clients is problems with SMB signing [digitally
sign communications] and lan manager authentication level. What might help
is to try installing the Directory Services Client on a couple of those
computers to see if it helps and look into modifying them to use SMB singing
and NTLMv2. The links below may help. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555038
http://www.petri.co.il/dsclient_for_win98_nt.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q239869
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823659

"Dror Admon" <DrorAdmon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A3637397-D0DD-416C-B857-926DE9FFB6AF@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
> for several weeks windows 9x client can't log into our domain, strange
> thing
> is that if the user is less than 6 charecters it can log into the domain,
> articles has suggested changing the local domain policy NTLM to NTLM 2,
> but this changes eliminated the abilitiy to log in at all.
> any one?! suggestions?
>
> Regards,
>
> Dror Admon
> Operations & Infrastructure Manager
> Sheba Medical Center