Created: 2000/05/14
Updated: 2000/05/14
Program: X-Setup (XSET)

Xteq Document #36- Activating "Legal Notice" plus "Always use RAS to login" options inside Windows 2000 might lead to infinity loop

Created: 2000/05/14
Updated: 2000/05/14
Program: X-Setup (XSET)

If you activate a "Legal Notice" ("Network\Login\2) Before Login Window\Legal Notice") plus activating the option "Always activate 'connect using RAS' ("Network\Login\3) Inside Login Window\Options (Windows NT)") Windows 2000 will show a very strange behavior:

It displays the notice, then launches the dialer (which will crash), then shows the notice again, launches the dialer (crash again) and so on and so on...

So far, only one customer has reported this problem and we were able to reproduce this problem. 

Solution

The only solution to exit this loop is to click on the "Options" button inside the dialer and then un-checking the dialup.

 

We would like to confirm that this is a bug in Windows 2000, NOT in X-Setup! X-Setup only sets options that documented by Microsoft itself; it does not do any "dirty" tricks to accomplish its work. Maybe the next Windows 2000 Service Pack will address this bug.