Re: Remote via RAS

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From: Manjari Bonam [MSFT] (manjarib_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/15/04 

Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:18:03 +0530

The credentials are cached in XP and used when you try to access any
resources in the remote network.

BUt the same feature is not present pre XP hence you see the difference.

Give the credentials when you try to access the shares. 

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- Manjari
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"Tina Smith" <tb.smith@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:eIxvkNtUEHA.4088@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> I'm having difficulty getting a remote Win2k user to gain access to a
share
> folder on a Win2K server.   The remote users
> use a RAS connection to gain access to the network.   Once connected I've
> tried a directory listing of the share folder
> and get an "Login Failure: unknown user name or bad password".     The
> remote user can ping the server with no problem and they can
> gain access to the share if they give it valid credentials.
>
> I have 14 remote users running Windows XP also connecting up to the
network
> via a RAS connection.    Once
> connected they have no problem gaining access to the share folder without
> giving it valid credentials.
>
> Theres something different between Windows XP andWin2k.   Windows XP
allows
> me to access the resource
> without giving it valid credentials and Win2k does not.
>
>
>
>

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