dear fellows
i have pdc of w2k and clients at winxp pro
actually my problem is that every thing are ok network connects works at first but after some time when i access other xp computers a weird network logon screen appears asking login and password and upon providing result is failure .
tell me why this screen appears and how to avoid it
thanx
kashif

r u referring to the logon screen with a "head" pic when u try to click on the compter to connect to in your network neighbourhood???

is dhcp used???

yes sir this is the picture and yes dhcp used plz help
kashif.

The "Welcome screen" only works when your computer has NOT been added to a domain.
As soon als you'll make your XP box a member of any NT domain (NT4/W2K/.NET) you loose the welcome screen and the "Fast User Switching"will be disabled.

I've searched for it all over the net and there doesn't seem a fix/hack for this. Just remove the box from the domain again, and keep the usernames and passwords on the domain the same as on the XP box. This way people can logon to the XP Box and everthing will work on the domain also.

Hopes this helps,

Cheers!

dear Le Cactus thanx 4 your personal interest but this is not a welcome screen and it is not appered at domail failure , xp is connected to domain users can access all resource but after some time 1 hr etc. when user again try to access network resource on other xp machine then this logon box appears and it did not accepts username and password of the current user connected by stating that this has already tried if give the passwod of some other user it again shows and shares network resources on other xp machines. that is it
any help plz

dear fellows any help
one more thing if i again give password and username as with domain name it again connects
but i have to give it for all
best regards
Kashif