Unable to UNC to a share on a Windows 2003 domain

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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. 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 (e-mail address removed) and password and that
doesnt work...
1. I have turned off the firewall
2. Turned off UAC

I dont know what else it could be? Anyone?
 
"I try to UNC to a domain share (Example: \\SERVER\SHARE) and I am
continually being prompted for authentication"
You sure it shouldn't be \\DOMAIN\Username

There would have to be an account in the Domain with access to the share I
suspect to do this, you would then use \\DOMAIN\Username to authenticate get
access to share.
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Correct... however it keeps prompting (says incorrect username/password) Im
telling ya its some form of protection (the firewall is off but I do notice
that if I open anything new it needs to add it to the firewall?!?).

Wierd.

Anyone else with this issue?

James
 
its some how Vista is blocking maybe udp/tcp 137-139 possibly which is
passing the credentials...

The strange part was it was working, and I have tested this on various
domains now.

James
 
It seems to work fine here... instead of trying to connect to the server
name itself, go for the IP address and see if this helps. Does seem to be a
bug perhaps though. Make sure your servers have been notched up to accept
Windows 2000 and above though - can't remember off the top of my head, but
it's in Active Directory Users & Computers somewhere.

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Zack,

yeah its not a DNS issue, it connects fine either way, just wont
successfully authenticate... Im very stressed about this as it appears
everything else is working... on the test machines you have are they stand
alone (not part of a domain) because that is what I am testing. These are
not member workstations to any domain just workgroup.


James
 
No this is normal ability since NT days... its basically causes NT to prompt
for authentication when accessing a share on a domain...

james
 
James L VanDusen said:
The machine is not a member of anything other than a workgroup. 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 (e-mail address removed) and password and that
doesnt work...
Click to expand...

I saw someone else reporting that kind of behavior/problem as new to
5365, specifically accessing domain-based server from workgroup-only
Vista 5365 machine.

I'm actually seeing that issue myself, within the workgroup, from
Vista to existing XP SP2 machines. If the credentials I've used for
logging into Vista 5365 don't transparently authenticate me to the
remote XP machine, sometimes the credentials are accepted in the
authentication prompt that comes up, but other times no amount of
correctly-entered credentials will succeed. If you set the Vista
username and password to match the necessary account information for
accessing the remote machine, it works every time without issue
(therefore not seeming to be any sort of "firewall" or "can't get
there from here with those credentials" issue).

This pure-workgroup scenario was new to 5365; i.e. I've been accessing
these same XP SP2 machines successfully (after being prompted for
authentication because the accounts normally don't match) in 5342 and
earlier.

Alan Adams
 
Alan,

Thank the Lord someone else besides me is seeing this... I did post this as
a bug but if you could also that would help push the issue.

James
 
Andre,

I have submitted two now but no return assigned numbers have been issued,
Also I have continually searched the bug area and the only UNC issue I see
is another person dealing with authenticate when trying to access a file
rather than the share itself.
 
Andre Da Costa said:
Alan, I am in the beta program also, if you or the other person buged this
e-mail me the link at andred25 AT hotmail.com
Click to expand...

Sorry for the delay; it was Feedback ID 64232, for anyone within the
closed beta to see/validate/comment on that.

Alan Adams
 
I seem to have found the issue, for some reason Vista is requiring the client
to enable File and Print to access a resource on another server, this is odd
behavior and has never been a requiredment to access a remote resource. For
some reason with out FnP enabled on the adapter it doesn not allow access. I
also noticed I am unable to start my computer browser service.
 
I hope this helps.

The only way I could get my mapped drives to work again from my laptop (XP)
to my desktop (Vista) was to re-map with the administrator login, not my
account name (which IS an admin and is same on both machines).

So I had to go into safe mode on Vista to add a password to my administrator
account and then re-map my shares with the admin login.

I don't know why this should be but at least I have the UNC's back. I hope
it works for you.



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