David-I'm hijacking your thread, but changed the subject line. Did you ever find a solution to this? All of a sudden today, we are having what sounds like a similar problem. I've worked on 6 machines so far, but it's far from everyone. I've been able to get quite a few details from various people and the only common threads are Windows 8.1 on tablet-style machines (Dell & Surface Pro III). They are either prompted to change their password or just did recently from another computer, and then it just spins - one had it sit for over an hour and another for two.
In our case, it doesn't work to wire it as even though they have docks, they were already started that way and it didn't work (and neither would wireless). For most machines, we had to log on an admin and delete the locally cached copy of the roaming profile to get the person back on, which of course removes the offline file cache :/ I didn't remember your thread until just now, so if we have another, we'll try logging them on with no network connection and see if it syncs up. In one case, the person also had a win7 desktop and she was able to log on there with no issues after her surface was spinning for several minutes. Someone else told us she had changed her password from home last week and was checking messages fine, but then it spun when logging on this morning (she had left the computer at work in the dock, so had used a different one from home). Most of the others had forgotten their password and requested a reset, but then it just spun at logon. Based on the logs some computers had just been started up and others were left on for the duration. Any pointers will help-I still have a lot of logs to look through. Thanks, -Bonnie From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mazzaccaro, David Sent: Monday, December 21, 2015 12:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Password change, then can only log on to domain if LAN cable unplugged For a couple of these events, we've given the user another machine to use, and they log on w/ their new password no problem. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wolf, Daniel Sent: Monday, December 21, 2015 1:47 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Password change, then can only log on to domain if LAN cable unplugged Not sure how that's even possible, it's my understanding the password change happens on the DC, then it's synced to the PC. After this happens, can the user use the new password to login to another computer? Is it just the computer they changed it on that's not authenticating? From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mazzaccaro, David Sent: Monday, December 21, 2015 10:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [NTSysADM] Password change, then can only log on to domain if LAN cable unplugged Hi all, I am having an issue that is becoming more widespread. Win 8.1 clients on 2008R2 domain. Passwords expire every xx days, and users typically wait until it expires and forces them to change at their next logon. They get the "Your password has expired and needs to be changed" message. The user enters a new password, clicks ok, and gets the spinning "welcome" message, it never takes them to the desktop. The user shuts down the machine holding the power button, disconnects the LAN cable, turns on the PC, and is able to use their new password with no LAN cable to log on locally. They then shutdown PC again, re-connect their LAN cable, turn on PC, and can log on to the domain. We are trying to figure out how/why this is happening. Any ideas? Thx!
