Login to Exchange 2000 mailbox without a domain?
David Cronshaw
supplying a domain name? I want users to be able to access an Exchange
server just using their username and password without having to supply a
domain name. This is because they are normally logged in to a different
domain but have identical usernames and passwords defined on the Exchange
server, which is in a different domain.
Setting their mail profile Exchange Service properties authentication method
to none lets them access their mailboxes on the server, but only after they
fill in a logon credentials window that requires they enter the domain name
of the Exchange server - some users can't get this right and it causes
problems.
TIA
davec
Rich Matheisen [MVP]
>Is it possible to login to an exchange server, using Outlook, without
>supplying a domain name?
No, it's not.
>I want users to be able to access an Exchange
>server just using their username and password without having to supply a
>domain name. This is because they are normally logged in to a different
>domain but have identical usernames and passwords defined on the Exchange
>server, which is in a different domain.
Sorry. That's just the way it is.
>Setting their mail profile Exchange Service properties authentication method
>to none lets them access their mailboxes on the server, but only after they
>fill in a logon credentials window that requires they enter the domain name
>of the Exchange server - some users can't get this right and it causes
>problems.
They can't fill in the password? Or is the dialog box empty? A simple
registry modification will alter that:
OL2000: (CW) Password Dialog Box Always Unpopulated at Startup
[Q198438]
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Rich Matheisen
MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
MS Exchange FAQ at http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm