I'm trying to understand how XP works in a domain

[Jerry Spence1]

I have been asked to look at a problem. There is a Win2000 domain with XP
Clients. I need to use a resource on another client so I set up a share on
the "host" and configured a username and set the rightes etc.

When you connect for the first time from elsewhere, it asks for your
username and password. It will let me in as Administrator, but not as an
ordinary user. What is the syntax I should be using as the username. Is it
something like //domain/user to force the host to authenticate via the
domain, rather than the local authorisation file?

Also, since I have now logged in once as administrator, it keeps logging in
automatically. How do I get it to present me with the username/password
again?

Thanks

-Jerry

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have been asked to look at a problem. There is a Win2000 domain
with XP Clients. I need to use a resource on another client so I set
up a share on the "host" and configured a username and set the
rightes etc.

When you connect for the first time from elsewhere, it asks for your
username and password. It will let me in as Administrator, but not as
an ordinary user. What is the syntax I should be using as the
username. Is it something like //domain/user to force the host to
authenticate via the domain, rather than the local authorisation file?

Also, since I have now logged in once as administrator, it keeps
logging in automatically. How do I get it to present me with the
username/password again?

Your username in a domain is DOMAIN\username

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

If the machine hosting the desired shared resources is the member
of a domain, than access to its shares are controlled, in part, by the
domain. Only valid domain accounts that have been explicitly granted
the necessary permissions will be able to access the share(s).
Creating local accounts on the host machine for this purpose would be
pointless; the machine looks to the domain for authenticating
credentials. In this respect, WinXP acts exactly the same as WinNT
and Win2K.


Bruce Chambers
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[Jerry Spence1]

Greetings --

If the machine hosting the desired shared resources is the member
of a domain, than access to its shares are controlled, in part, by the
domain. Only valid domain accounts that have been explicitly granted
the necessary permissions will be able to access the share(s).
Creating local accounts on the host machine for this purpose would be
pointless; the machine looks to the domain for authenticating
credentials. In this respect, WinXP acts exactly the same as WinNT
and Win2K.


Bruce Chambers

Thanks for both replies. Has anyone an answer to the second part? How do I
get the PC I'm on to come up with the Username/Password box when logging on
to the distant PC?

-Jerry

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Thanks for both replies. Has anyone an answer to the second part? How
do I get the PC I'm on to come up with the Username/Password box when
logging on to the distant PC?

Start -> Run

Type in:

control userpasswords2

select the Advanced TAB and Manage Passwords button and delete the entries
found there. Close that down and try then.. Make sure that you are NOT
remembering the connection (it is not persistent) this time.

 

[Jerry Spence1]

Start -> Run

Type in:

control userpasswords2

select the Advanced TAB and Manage Passwords button and delete the entries
found there. Close that down and try then.. Make sure that you are NOT
remembering the connection (it is not persistent) this time.

I tried that back in the office where I have just a peer to peer network and
the only entry in there was for my own PC. And yet when I click on other
PC's on the network I automatically get the contents of the disks without
being asked to log on.

-Jerry