Win2K services and authentication

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I have a service running on a Win2K server for data collection purposes.
This server participates on a Win2K domain and is NOT the domain controller.
The service runs under a domain user account; it reads text files located on
a domain workstation and had no problems getting to the text files until it
was removed from the domain and placed into its own workgroup. Now, the
service can no longer authenticate with this workgroup computer and
therefore cannot see the text files any longer. Having this computer rejoin
the domain is NOT an option- is there a way for my service that is running
on this domain server to access this standalone PC? (Network visibility is
not an issue- I can ping the IP address just fine, this is an authentication
issue.) Any comments are greatly appreciated! Thanks.
 
As long as the account logon name/password is the same as one on the target computer,
then it should work. Therefore you will need to create a local user account on the
computer removed from the domain with the same user logon name/password and try again
assuming no domain policy such as ipsec or lan manager authentication level would
interfere with communications. --- Steve
 
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