Why isn't Fast User Switching enabled on domains?

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re: Why isn't Fast User Switching enabled on domains?

Raymond Chen — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 15:49:00 GMT

This was not meant to be a comprehensive list. The primary reason was the last sentence: To get Fast User Switching to work on domains would have required more infrastructure than there was time to implement.

I'm going to close commenting on this entry now that it's over six months old.

re: Why isn't Fast User Switching enabled on domains?

Jay — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 15:45:00 GMT

Considering he only gave two reasons, both of which are pretty vague, I think this entry was totally useless. Someone above said "Charles, your point would be much better if you hadn't chosen to focus on one particular piece of information to the exclusion of everything else". That's laughable, considering "everything else" was "it was too hard for us to do." How is this actually useful?

re: Why isn't Fast User Switching enabled on domains?

Rajiv — Fri, 28 May 2004 01:00:00 GMT

Or buy a nice copy of Windows 2003 Server....

re: Why isn't Fast User Switching enabled on domains?

Ryan McCauley — Tue, 25 May 2004 18:57:00 GMT

I was really hoping that simultaneous console/remote usage would be a new feature of XP in SP2, but it looks like we'll have to wait until Longhorn. I can understand why they wouldn't want to alter the GINA, but it would be a *really* nice feature to have. Oh well - I guess I'll hold on until 2007, or until somebody hacks the LOGONUI.EXE process. :)

re: Why isn't Fast User Switching enabled on domains?

Todd — Sat, 22 May 2004 15:26:00 GMT

Look in this registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon and rename the GinaDLL value name with a different name. That did the trick for me!

Tried this but wasn't able to log in to XP after. Had to boot up in safe mode go back into the registry and change the winlogin value back to CSGina.dll. Incidently it was a Cisco VPN client that disabled the FUS. Oh well to FUS no mess.

RE: Why isn't Fast User Switching enabled on domains?

kurakuraninja — Fri, 28 Nov 2003 19:37:00 GMT

Charles, your point would be much better if you hadn't chosen to focus on one particular piece of information to the exclusion of everything else. Raymond has said, twice, that those were not the only two problems, but just an example of the problems involved. See his comment from 11/21/2003 at 12:06 PM on this page. If you're going to try and be glib and/or insulting, which is how I perceive that comment, you'll have to do a better job.

RE: Why isn't Fast User Switching enabled on domains?

Charles — Tue, 25 Nov 2003 21:19:00 GMT

"How do you show all the users on the domain in the Welcome screen? You certainly don't want a list with 10,000 names in it. (Scroll scroll scroll.)" No, you simply have a system where you let the user enter their username. That is, the LOGIN: prompt. But prettier. Is this so impossible to contemplate? Has none of you guys seen a Unix box?

RE: Why isn't Fast User Switching enabled on domains?

Damit — Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:14:00 GMT

Unfortunately, I think the last time I tried this I couldn't authenticate with the network at all... so maybe it is needed. Thanks anyway!