How long do cached credentials last?

I'm looking around the KB, and all I see is that Windows caches the
credentials of the last 10 users who logged on. It doesn't say if they ever
expire. What if one of those users hasn't logged on to that workstation in
a year?

In the present case I don't want it to expire. I'm thinking about a laptop
that might be off the LAN for long periods, and I want the single user to
always have the same profile.


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In news:22Hwe.4161$(E-Mail Removed),
Tom Del Rosso <(E-Mail Removed)> posted the following:
> I'm looking around the KB, and all I see is that Windows caches the
> credentials of the last 10 users who logged on. It doesn't say if they
> ever expire. What if one of those users hasn't logged on to that
> workstation in a year?
>
> In the present case I don't want it to expire. I'm thinking about a
> laptop that might be off the LAN for long periods, and I want the single
> user to always have the same profile.

Laptop off the LAN for greater than 30 days may lose it's ability to connect
to the domain because the machine's password by default changes every 30
days. I've have seen once-in-a-blue-moon situations where a user will
complain they can't logon to their laptop and getting the "No domain
controller available" error message even when they are the only user of
their laptop and the DDP is set remember the cached credentials of the last
10 users to logon and they just used their laptop ON THE LAN the day before.
I have yet to figure this one out but I suspect it's a setting in the
registry somewhere unique to the machine and not policy-based. . :-)

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> Laptop off the LAN for greater than 30 days may lose it's ability to
connect
> to the domain because the machine's password by default changes every 30

Do you mean the user's password? Is there a machine's password?


> days. I've have seen once-in-a-blue-moon situations where a user will
> complain they can't logon to their laptop and getting the "No domain
> controller available" error message even when they are the only user of
> their laptop and the DDP is set remember the cached credentials of the
last
> 10 users to logon and they just used their laptop ON THE LAN the day
before.
> I have yet to figure this one out but I suspect it's a setting in the
> registry somewhere unique to the machine and not policy-based. . :-)



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> Do you mean the user's password? Is there a machine's password?

machine's..

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> In news:xIRwe.12309$(E-Mail Removed),
> Tom Del Rosso <(E-Mail Removed)> posted the following:
>
> > Do you mean the user's password? Is there a machine's password?
>
> machine's..

That's news to me. Is it randonly set when the computer joins the domain?

I think it will connect often enough, but I must also ask, is the new
machine password synchronized whenever a connection is made even if it's
after login? The laptop will have a VPN connection, but that means it will
first login with cached credentials, and later make a connection.

Thanks for your help.


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