Hi Roberston,
Thanks very much for that - gonna do some comparisons to how our systems look, and see how I get on.
We have made progress though. On the virtual machine test box (which is how I should have done things from day one), we can now log in with AD credentials, but its not perfect. At the login GUI, if we hit escape, followed by F1 to get a blank login box, we can type something like:
domain.local\joe.s
And then successfully login. Somewhere, there is a place that is meant to prepend the domain name onto the username and either:
1) It is just not doing it
2) the domain information is missing, so it cannot do it
3) there is an error in the domain information, which is what is causing the "incorrect username/password messages".
Anyway, I will go through what you sent and see if I can work it out - thanks!!
Paul.