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Is it possible that a Windows XP laptop connected to the network, but not part of a Windows 2000 domain could attempt to connect to workstations on the network spontaneously? The attempted connects use only the XP user id, which the sophisticated owner of this machine has to know would have no value on all these workstations. The user is a Windows system administrator and it just makes no sense that this person would consciously attempt to log in to workstations with a password that doesn't exist either on the workstation or on the domain. This person has been placed on administrative leave pending resolution of this and another security violation issue.

Help!

Obviously too late for this post, BUT: I after some thinking, I guess that these were not intentional violationsm but automatic Windows logon tries. For example, if you (accidently) click on another workstation or server in Windows explorer, it tries to connect via guest first and if that fails via the currently logged-on user. In your case, this would be the laptop user.

HTH
Rainer