Daily Archives: January 29, 2008


Checking cached logons

As a result of a query – I wanted to advise how to check if you are having specific issues with cached credentials – and why you don’t get notified like you did before … here is some MS info that shows the mechanism for getting alerted – which will certainly help you pin down […]


Watching out for cached credentials !

During an investigation into problems when remote machines belonging to a client appeared not to be able to authenticate correctly with a domain controller across VPN links over adsl and a recently introduced leased line – some useful points were raised. 1) Is your provider blocking any traffic ? After recently putting in a leased […]


Time to go to the (Win)Dump ?

When looking at network problems most people focus at the higher levels – the physical links – settings on PCs – DNS and Wins arrangements. So what happens when you are seeing strange behaviours and want to know more about whats going on under the covers. For many years the tool of choice for most […]