Re: windows xp security model in workgroup setting

Steve Mekhi wrote:
hi, i have a customer with which I am optimizing a workgroup network environment.

after the user logs on, a script runs and maps drive letters to shares on other computers. the account used to map the shares exists on both hosts but *is not* the same account that the locally logged on user uses. a vary basic net use command is used.

net use j: \\machine\share /user:username password

when i browse in windows explorer, i can see the mapped drives. but when i click to access them, it prompts for a user name & password again.


Because you're mapping the drive with one set of credentials, but the user is trying to access the files with his credentials.


is there a way to disable that?


Yes, map the drive using the name and password of the user who's logged in to the computer. (Of course, that account will also need to exist on the host computer, with the necessary permissions to the appropriate shares.)


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