Primary network logon switching to windows logon from Client for Microsoft netwo

I appreciate any assistance in this issue. We have four
Windows 98 machines on our network of 170 machines with
this problem. When the computer is turned on the Primary
network logon that comes up is the Windows Logon instead
of Client for Microsoft networking which we have as
primary. Once logged off the Client for Microsoft
networking comes up and the user is able to log in to the
domain. If the computer is restarted instead of logged
off, the windows logon comes up. The tcp bindings are
Client for Microsoft Networking. We have 30 Win98 machines
and only four are affected. We tried troubleshooting
everything we can think of. Uninstalling the NIC and
reinstalling the NIC with current drivers. Uninstalling
and reinstalling tcp/ip and all networking settings. We
dont have any changes in our network policy and there is
no local policy. The autologon entry in the registry is
disabled. There is no difference in these 4 machines than
others on our network. It is not user specific, but
machine specific. Please help in any ideas or suggestions
you may have.

David Kairo

 

I looked at technet and many other sources, there is no
mention of this problem.

david

 

Try this:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;141858

 

Richard,
Thank you, we have already looked at that article and
that registry is not there for us. We spent about 10 man
hours so far on this problem and we exhaustibly search
technet for anything that we can try.

thank you,

David Kairo

 

Have you ensured that "Client for Microsoft Networks" is the preferred
network provider in the Network Properties screen?

 

This sounds like a connectivity issue to me. If you have the client for
microsoft networks as your primary login and yet the windows login comes
up first, this usually means you aren't physically connected to the
network. Or at the very least, connectivity is poor or intermitant. I
would try moving one of the problem 98 machines to a location that a
known working machine is using? This could help eliminate cabling, hubs,
or switches as a problem.

-Phil