We addressed this in a different thread I see you still haven't got the problem solved. What all have you tried to solve this problem? Also have you checked all of your permissions and policies? Their's got to be something we can do to solve this problem. Surely it's something minor.

 

In windows xp user accounts: if it's anything less than administrator on the domain, it almost never will ping the server name nor will it open Outlook. I've tested this repeatedly with numerous users on 4 or 5 different XP machines. Same users can almost always log on the first time and set up their outlook account with no problem in Windows 2000 sp3, regardless of what their user account rights are; in fact they don't even need to have an account on the local machine to do this. I've also tried disabling all the domain member settings on the local security policies for the XP machines, but to no avail.
Thanks in advance for any clues you can provide.

 

Activate your pm's so I can pm you. We'll figure this out. PM me when you change your pm stat. I'll do everything I can to help. It'll be tomorrow before I can look at the problem but I'd like to be able to contact you if need be! We'll get it.