With XP set to expire next year and XP getting harder and harder to find,
what to do with Wireless users? Specifically, if you install Vista on a
domain, set up off line files and folders for travellers, you can not login
to the OS when not connected to the LAN via hard wire. It doesn't save your
settings (cached account) therefore you can't do anything? What are you
suppose to do with people who travel and need to connect while on the road?
Is there something I'm missing???? Please help?

This is a good question. Assuming the cached credentials don't work, an option is creating another local user.

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"1xnyer" <1xnyer@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:422382A3-C24D-4DD0-9D8E-633C0E4A1CF3@xxxxxx
With XP set to expire next year and XP getting harder and harder to find,
what to do with Wireless users? Specifically, if you install Vista on a
domain, set up off line files and folders for travellers, you can not login
to the OS when not connected to the LAN via hard wire. It doesn't save your
settings (cached account) therefore you can't do anything? What are you
suppose to do with people who travel and need to connect while on the road?
Is there something I'm missing???? Please help?

OK but in the case of your settings a)they're lost, b)if you using off line
files and folder syncs then the user has to login locally to sync and re-sync
with the network and then log off again. That's not going to sit will with
people who travel and aren't really "educated" users. This is really an
issue because everything has changed completely concerning people who travel
and there's no good way around this. by the way I've tried to get around
this issue and I can't. This quesiton isn't an assumption, you have to be
connected to the network somehow (authenticated to the server) in order to
login on to the domain. You can't do it if the server isn't available it will
not bring up your settings and furthermore, it will not save anything either.

"Robert L [MVP - Networking]" wrote:

> This is a good question. Assuming the cached credentials don't work, an option is creating another local user.
>
> Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
> Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
> How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
> "1xnyer" <1xnyer@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:422382A3-C24D-4DD0-9D8E-633C0E4A1CF3@xxxxxx
> With XP set to expire next year and XP getting harder and harder to find,
> what to do with Wireless users? Specifically, if you install Vista on a
> domain, set up off line files and folders for travellers, you can not login
> to the OS when not connected to the LAN via hard wire. It doesn't save your
> settings (cached account) therefore you can't do anything? What are you
> suppose to do with people who travel and need to connect while on the road?
> Is there something I'm missing???? Please help?