Re: Network Neighborhood computer asking for username/password

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1. I never even get to the individual shares, I am asked for a
username/password after clicking on the machine itself in Network
Neighborhood so it's not even getting that far. I have double checked the
NTFS permissions and they are compatible with the share permissions.
2. Yes, these machines are all part of the same domain.


<j.sestrich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> J. Bryan Wehrenberg wrote:
>> One of the machines on my network always asks for a user name/password
>> whenever it is being accessed through network neighborhood by anyone but
>> an
>> administrator. And unless you give an administrators username/password,
>> you
>> cannot open it up to see the shares. The shares are EVERYONE read only
>> shares and anyone should be able to access them. All other machines on
>> my
>> network (Windows 2003 Active Directory) don't have this issue. Do I have
>> some local policy set funkily?
>>
>> -Bryan
>
> two things I can think of off the bat. Most obvious would be, what are
> the NTFS permissions on the directory that is being shared? Share
> permissions don't help if there is no NTFS access allowed by the user
> in question.
>
> Second, is the machine a current member of the same domain? If it
> isn't, it won't use domain authentication, and only local users with an
> account on that machine will be able to access. If you are accessing it
> as "administrator" from PC A and PC B has an administrator account with
> the same password, it'll work. Otherwise, it doesn't know who you are,
> and asks for a name/password to authenticate with.
>


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