Monday, May 08, 2006 - 01:00 pm, by: Sam Schreck(Schreck300)
I've hit a brick wall... I've got a 3 PC pier to pier network (2 PC's on 2000 PRO and 1 on XP PRO) connected to a domain (Server Edition 2003) through a Watch Guard Firebox. The connection and file sharing all works as it should however 2000PRO is really pissing me off. I can't get the 2 PC's on 2000 PRO to remmeber username and password login details when they're powered up each day. I don't want to give my staff the main server login details for security reasons and I don't want to have to come in every morning to connect them to the sharefile. XP PRO's a piece of cake but 2000 PRO is proving to be a real challenge. Has anybody else come up against this problem? Did you have any success?
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Monday, May 08, 2006 - 02:00 pm, by: Matthew Sharpe(Madmatt)
Hmm, its been a while so I could be wrong, but I recall there is a utility on the Windows 2000 Resource kit CD to do this. Buggered if I can remember what its called - probably something obvious like autologin but you never know with Microsoft...
Monday, May 08, 2006 - 03:33 pm, by: Callum Finch(Sigeneat)
Give the staff permission to read/write/whatever access you need to the spot on the server where the share is located. Set the fileshare to full permission to everybody (dont worry about security for the share, set permissions on the ntfs folders blah)
Then you wont have to log in to the shares with an account which does have permission. Obviously you dont need to worry about them having read/write (whatever) permissions to the files if you are already logging them on to the share.
Something to note: Win2k and WinXP _SHOULD_ use the user's credentials which is logged on to authenticate for the share, so no need for it to 'remember'.
Other than that, Win2k doesnt have a password cache for fileshares afaik.
If thats too much of a crappy fart sentance then please ask any questions and ill attempt to make it more coherant ;D
Tim Eacott Goo Roo ACT/Canberra JZZ30 Factory Manual Lux Pack
Monday, May 08, 2006 - 03:49 pm, by: Sam Schreck(Schreck300)
Cheers Callum, had done all that already but still seem to have a problem. Didn't know about the password cache, or lack of in 2000Pro though. That'll be handy to know in the future.
Monday, May 08, 2006 - 10:33 pm, by: Callum Finch(Sigeneat)
Its my job Tim =P And i was on lunch break.
Eating fried rice and drinking Sprite =3
Sam, are users logging on to the computers via domain accounts? And are the computers on the domain? Sorry if the questions sound stupid but i have been to a fair few office networks where technicians had setup a domain on a server, and not actually used any of the domain features you want, such as user and computer accounts.
Tuesday, May 09, 2006 - 07:04 am, by: Matthew Sharpe(Madmatt)
Sam, are you talking about the initial login when the computer starts, or are the users being asked for authentication details when they try to access the share?
Tuesday, May 09, 2006 - 12:16 pm, by: Nick Petkovic(Naissus96)
Callum has a point. Just create a computer and a user account in AD so every time they start the computer it will ask for credentials and it will use those to log on to the server. Its very simple and very effective and you have more control over what users are doing
Tuesday, May 09, 2006 - 02:17 pm, by: Sam Schreck(Schreck300)
Callum, the 3 pc's are not part of the domain. They were never inteded to be linked to the rest of the network. Matthew, I'm referring to authentication when connecting to the share. When the pc's are powered up, one set of credentials is used to log onto the pier to pier server, which is of course one of the 3 computers. Another set of credential is then required when connecting to the main share file located on the domain server. I have it at the stage now where they will power up and attemp to log on to the domain share, prompting for a password but not asking for or displaying the username. I can live whith that as far as security goes. Thanks for your input so far everyone.
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. I can't get the 2 PC's on 2000 PRO to remmeber username and password login details when they're powered up each day. I don't want to give my staff the main server login details for security reasons and I don't want to have to come in every morning to connect them to the sharefile. XP PRO's a piece of cake but 2000 PRO is proving to be a real challenge. 
Has anybody else come up against this problem? Did you have any success?
