Re: Have to reset the passwords every day!!!

or could be that someone has discovered how to change your password and is
doing this to annoy you.
Is the account used to share that folder a member of the Administrators
group?


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>> > Please be more specific:
>> > - Do you run a workgroup or a domain environment?
>> > - Do your users have individual or shared logon names?
>> > - Does the account on the share's host machine get locked
>> > out? (You wrote that you "lose the password" - you
>> > cannot lose passwords!)
>> > - How does the share get mapped on the various workstations?
>> > Is it a remembered connection? By user interaction? By a script?
>> >
>> >
>>
> Thanks Pegasus,
> It is a workgroup environment. Each computer/user ahs
> an individual name. Yes, the individual computers cannot
> access the host machine until I reset the password on
> the host machine for that individual client machine. The
> host folder is mapped as a shared folder. I'm not sure
> if it is a remembered connection or interaction. I'm
> not sure what that means. It worked for years so I've
> lost track of how I did it. I turn on the host machine
> first. Then I turn on each client. At each client
> machine, I have to access that folder. It asks for the
> individual machine password. I plug that in and it can
> access the folder. But during the day, several of
> the client computers can no longer access the host.
> I sometimes have to reset the password 3
> times before they can access the folder again.
>
> Thanks again for your interest. Any insights are welcome!!!
> ========================
>
> I'm still confused, largely because you write things such as
> "... until I reset the password on the host machine for that
> individual client machine." How do you reset a password
> for a client machine? I thought you reset passwords for
> a user account, not for a client machine?
>
> I am also puzzled by your mode of operation. You write:
> ==========
> - I turn on the host machine first.
> - Then I turn on each client [PC?].
> - At each client machine, I have to access that folder
> [How exactly do you do this?]
> - It asks for the individual machine password.
> [What account name do you specify? The same,
> regardless of the client machine?]
> - I plug that in and it can access the folder.
> ==========
>
> I suspect that you have a clumsy typer who consistently
> mistypes the password, thus causing the account on the
> host machine to be suspended.
>
> A far superior way goes like this:
>
> 1. Create a number of accounts on the host PC: One for
> every staff member in the business.
> 2. Syncronise the passwords for these host accounts with
> the passwords on the client PCs.
> 3. Create the following batch file on each client PC:
>
> c:\documents and settings\start menu\programs\startup\netlogon.bat
> @echo off
> call \\HostPC\netlogon\netlogon.bat
> (Replace "HostPC" with the real name of the host PC)
>
> 4. Start a command prompt on the host machine and type
> these commands:
> md c:\netlogon
> net share netlogon=c:\netlogon
> copy con c:\netlogon\netlogon.bat
> @echo off
> net use S: \\HostPC\NameOfShare
> (Press function key F6 here)
> (Replace "HostPC" and "NameOfShare" with the actual
> names that apply in your case)
>
> 5. Check your NTFS permissions on the host:
> - Everyone must have read-access to the c:\netlogon folder.
> - Everyone must have full access to the shared folder.
>
> 6. Check your permissions for the netlogon share:
> Everyone must have "Full access" to it.
>
> Doing this would create a tightly controlled environment
> that is completely transparent. It will not rely on some
> remembered share connections that nobody really knows
> what they are and how they came into existence.
>
>


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