Re: NT 4.0 Stand alone Server Un-securing

From: Lanwench (lanwench@nospamplease.yahoo.com)
Date: 05/17/02 

From: "Lanwench" <lanwench@nospamplease.yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 12:03:50 -0400

Win98 can't connect to a server resource using credentials other than the
ones you logged into Windows/the domain with... yet another reason to avoid
it.

"x y" <jamescagney90210@excite.com> wrote in message
news:u2cpe4Z$BHA.2252@tkmsftngp02...
> Win98 can "connect as," too. If you don't see any way in the win98
printer
> setup to enter a login ID and password, try mapping a permanent drive to
the
> server, ideally through a login script or a batch file in the system
> startup, but it can also be done by right-clicking on network neighborhood
> if you really need to. [doing it this last way makes it harder for you to
> change the password on that account on the server.] Once you've done
this,
> I would hope that win98 would cache the ID and password used to connect to
> this server and reuse these credentials when you connect to the printer.
I
> could be wrong.
>
>
> "Deniz" <denizgroff@cox.net> wrote in message
> news:405401c1fd57$8c9c9a60$a5e62ecf@tkmsftngxa07...
> > That's not working. This isn't a problem with WinNT
> > workstation, Win2k & newer OS's since there is "connect-
> > as" service. My main problems are Win9x laptops used by
> > Real Estate Reps that travel to various markets. Create-
> > ing individual user accounts & scripts are not an option.
> > I need this thing to act like a Win98 machine a openly
> > share it's printers & @ the same time assign DHCP
> > settings. If I have to install a separate Win98
> > workstation to do this.....I'll just setup a linux box &
> > MS can do whatever it wants. I manage the infrastructure
> > of a 2.5 billion company, which is just a subidiary of a
> > larger billion dollar conglomerate (which means I set
> > policies & procedures for everything) & get upset that I
> > can't get answers to support questions like this w/o a
> > &500 fee after over-paying for software that's developed
> > on-the-fly (riduculious). Whenever I get too many
> > headaches from vendors I usually discontinue doing
> > business with them.
> >
> > Thanks for trying to help, Branimir
> >
> >
> > Deniz
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >
> > >"Deniz" <denizgroff@cox.net> wrote in message
> > news:3b2701c1fd50$710ca670$a4e62ecf@tkmsftngxa06...
> > >> I need to stop that server from making Win clients
> > >> authenticating & just share it's resources. Do you know
> > >> how to do that???
> > >>
> > >> Deniz
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >You can not stop authentication, but you can share the
> > resource
> > >in such a way that group Everyone have print permissions
> > (see
> > >"permissions" when you share resource).
> > >
> > >Branimir
> > >
> > >
> > >.
> > >
>
>

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