james l vandusen

recently installed build 5365 and have enjoyed it... this is whats happening
thus far

The machine is not a member of anything other than a workgroup (not a member
of any domain). I try to
UNC to a domain share (Example: \\SERVER\SHARE) and I am continually being
prompted for authentication, I tried providing NETBIOSNAME\LOGINID and
password, that doesnt work. I tried FQDN@DOMAIN.COM and password and that
doesnt work... I have tried the IP only address and no NETBIOS...

1. I have turned off the firewall
2. Turned off UAC
3. Turned off Firewall on the domain side of things

I dont know what else it could be? Anyone?

prashanth prahalad [msft]

There was some known issues with accessing UNC paths and authentication.
These have been fixed in the subsequent build. Can you provide the actual
error code being returned ?

Alternatively can you try this from a command prompt and post the output of
this : (of course make sure that firewall ports are turned on etc)

net use m: \\server\share /user:<username>

Thanks ~
Prashanth

james l vandusen

I have installed Vista on various laptops now and created a local user
called TV... which I use without a password. I have tested on various
domains now that i have created, one called vandusenfamily.org (which is my
local lan running ADS 2003) and another called cazenovia.edu (netbiosname is
caznet). Both do the same thing when I try to UNC to a share (doesnt matter
if its admin or not).

I did the dos command mapping and this is what I got... there is a domain
account called TV and its password is blank... but I have tried with my
domain account admin.... which is 3l3m3nt.

Here are the results with errors:
1. C:\Users\TV>net use m: \\pdc\downloads /user:tv@vandusenfamily.org
System error 1168 has occurred.

Element not found.


2. C:\Users\TV>net use m: \\pdc\downloads
/user:administrator@vandusenfamily.org
System error 1168 has occurred.

Element not found.

The bug that you speak of must still be existant or in a differant form. I
need access to the domain shares as I jump between many domains during the
day or when Im consulting and I cant authenticate against them now (to print
or anything) unless probably I join the domain (which I dont wish to do).

James

prashanth prahalad [msft]

Typically for a domain/workgroup user account, you need to use the form
<domain>\<username>
i.e

net use \\server\share /user:<domain>\<username>

Can you try that ?