Runas

[Guest]

Hello,

I work for a company where the server administrators have two login ID's.
One without admin right that we use to log into our workstations and one with
admin rights that we use to for server administration. A co-worker and I put
together an app in VB.Net that lets us click a button to do things that
require admin rights like opening certain applications. We use runas to open
the app with our admin id's and then any option we select opens using the
admin credentials. Everything works fine with the exception of opening a UNC
path.

process.start(explorer, "\\server\share") 'does nothing

process.start("\\server\share") 'will open the UNC path, but not with
the administrative credentials that the app runs under. We are prompted for
credentials and when we enter the id and password that the app runs under the
path is opened no problem.

Has anyone seen this problem before, or have any suggestions?

Thanks!!

Chad

 

[OHM \( One Handed Man \)]

Im taking a guess here; but it is possible that when you spawn another
process this way, that the spawned process picks up the current windows
principal not the Runas account used. You would be advised to attempt to
also spawn a Runas for the internet explorer being started.

process.start( "Runas explorer . . . . .

 

[Guest]

Great idea. We tried it and no luck. Any other suggestions?

Chad

 

[OHM \( One Handed Man \)]

OK, your Security setting in internet explorer will need to be set to
Automatically log you on with the current username and password. Now if this
doesent work, then it means that explorer is looking at the currently logged
on ID when connecting to remote sites rather than using Runas.

Try and take a look TOOLS | INTERNET OPTIONS | SECURITY | CHOOSE YOUR ZONE |
SCROLL DOWN TO USER LOGON SETTINGS

HTH