"log on" form

[billie]

I got two Windows XP prof SP2 machines sharing two folders with different
access priviledges.
This kind of sharing forces me to logout with "josh" user everytime I want
to access the "michael" share.
I rember that in case like this it should appears a log in windows in wich I
could authenticate myself with alternative credentials but this does not
happen because appears simply an error related to the wrong access
privileges.
How can I restore that logon form?
It was really useful.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Make sure that the user account "josh" on the other computer has the same
password that you use on your computer and that user josh has access
permissions to the "Michael" share for both share and folder [NTFS]
permissions. The link below explains more on that if you have any
uestion. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308418

 

[billie]

Make sure that the user account "josh" on the other computer has the same
password that you use on your computer and that user josh has access
permissions to the "Michael" share for both share and folder [NTFS]
permissions. The link below explains more on that if you have any
uestion. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308418

Ok, now it works. Another problem, another question. Configuration:

PC_A
created users: "john", "michael"
shared folders: "public" (full access to everyone), "john docs" (private for
john), "michael docs" (private for michael)

PC_B - created users: "sarah"
shared folders: do not mind.

As you'll surely know, if I want to connect from PC_B to PC_A I have to use
credentials of an existing user created on PC_A.
I can do it by following two different ways:

* Create user "john" or "michael" on PC_B. In this case when I try to
connect on PC_A system automatically uses the same credentials of the user
who locally logged in (on PC_B) without asking me to log in.
* Use the existent user ("sarah") and log into PC_A by specyfing a password
manually (by using the graphical form or net use command).

I'd like to use this second way because I'd have the following advantages:
* I'd avoid to manually replicate all users on every machine of my workgroup
by simply using one "shared" user only ("john" or "michael")
* - users = + security

My problem is that the only "manual authentication" I can do is via shell by
using "net use \\PC_A password /user:michael" command.
Does it is possible to manually authenticate PC_B to PC_A by using the
graphical log in form?
I can't understand why it doesn't appear no more like when I had just
installed the brand new systems.
Maybe does the system has old cached credentials?
In that case how can I "flush" them and make login form appears again?


Sorry for my bad english.
Best regards.

billiejoex

 

[Steven L Umbach]

I really do not like having users share accounts and feel it is worth the
extra work to create users on all the computers or better yet go to an
Active Directory domain though I understand budget restraints. I am not sure
why you are having the problem you are with authenticating but normally when
a user is logged onto the client computer with a different user account than
what exists on the "server" the user will be prompted for credentials to
give them a change to authenticate to the server. If they are logged on with
a user account that exists on the server computer but the account on the
server has a different password than the client logged on with they will get
an access denied message and yes Windows XP can store credentials as shown
in the link below. You may find that type 3 logon events in the security log
on the server computer [with the share] may provide helpful information on
why there are access problems. --- Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prdp_log_vkxx.asp
OR
http://tinyurl.com/6qlzj

Make sure that the user account "josh" on the other computer has the same
password that you use on your computer and that user josh has access
permissions to the "Michael" share for both share and folder [NTFS]
permissions. The link below explains more on that if you have any
uestion. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308418

Ok, now it works. Another problem, another question. Configuration:

PC_A
created users: "john", "michael"
shared folders: "public" (full access to everyone), "john docs" (private
for
john), "michael docs" (private for michael)

PC_B - created users: "sarah"
shared folders: do not mind.

As you'll surely know, if I want to connect from PC_B to PC_A I have to
use
credentials of an existing user created on PC_A.
I can do it by following two different ways:

* Create user "john" or "michael" on PC_B. In this case when I try to
connect on PC_A system automatically uses the same credentials of the user
who locally logged in (on PC_B) without asking me to log in.
* Use the existent user ("sarah") and log into PC_A by specyfing a
password
manually (by using the graphical form or net use command).

I'd like to use this second way because I'd have the following advantages:
* I'd avoid to manually replicate all users on every machine of my
workgroup
by simply using one "shared" user only ("john" or "michael")
* - users = + security

My problem is that the only "manual authentication" I can do is via shell
by
using "net use \\PC_A password /user:michael" command.
Does it is possible to manually authenticate PC_B to PC_A by using the
graphical log in form?
I can't understand why it doesn't appear no more like when I had just
installed the brand new systems.
Maybe does the system has old cached credentials?
In that case how can I "flush" them and make login form appears again?


Sorry for my bad english.
Best regards.

billiejoex

 

[billie]

Thank you. I solved the problem with that links.

Hope to see you again.

 

[billie]

I'm sorry, another question.
I got problem on accessing on computers that shares folder with different
permissions.
For example:

PC_A sharings:
c:\document (permission granted to "john" only)
c:\music (permission granted to "sarah" only)

If from PC_B I log onto PC_A with "john" credential I can access to document
share only.
If I try to access to music share (owned by sarah) I get an error that says
I can't perform multiple connection by using more than one account.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

I believe that is a restriction of the operating system if you try to use
multiple credentials to access a share. You would need to close the other
connection first with something like the net use command. Net help use will
show you details of closing connections. --- Steve