Logon "Domain" Option Is Missing

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Lee

When I try to log on to my company's internet based e-
mail from my lap top, I need to enter a user name,
password and domain.

The logon box only allows a user name and password. This
happens on both my lap top and desk top that run WXP Pro.

My company lap top (W98b) and my wife's computer (WME)
both display the longon box with, "domain," as an option.

How do I get the, "domain," logon option to appear in the
logon box?

Lee
 
Lee said:
When I try to log on to my company's internet based e-
mail from my lap top, I need to enter a user name,
password and domain.

The logon box only allows a user name and password. This
happens on both my lap top and desk top that run WXP Pro.

My company lap top (W98b) and my wife's computer (WME)
both display the longon box with, "domain," as an option.

How do I get the, "domain," logon option to appear in the
logon box?

Lee
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I suggest asking in this newsgroup:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.basic

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How do I get the, "domain," logon option to appear in the
logon box?
Click to expand...

Perhaps you don't really need to. Some sites accept domain\userid
in the user name field. (I.e. backslash is the separator to signal that
both are being sent.)


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
 
Robert

Thank you! It worked.

The only problem now is, my password will not auto-save.

Lee
 
The only problem now is, my password will not auto-save.

See if it will save a password for the concatenation of the two strings
without the backslash (or even try substituting another character.)
Then see if the saved password will stay if you overtype/insert the backslash.
Frankly I'm surprised that there would be an exception like that for backslash.
(Who's to say that that might not be a legitimate part of my userid
in some situations? Although often it would end up being encoded
as an escaped hex string of its ASCII value. E.g. backslash is 0x5C
so it might be coded within a username or password as %5C.
That might be worth trying too though IMO it should be something
that the UI handles automatically not something that the user needs
to know how to do.)


Good luck

Robert
 
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