Re: How does authentication work?

We do not use more than one set to connect to those resources, just the
domain account.
The problem is that when the remote server times out the connection and
wants credentials sent again our server cannot send them because they are
not cached.

The problem is in the connection ever timing out in the first place. If
Microsoft had not disabled caching of passwords for the non-logon account we
would not have the issue but if the remote server did not set some sort of
expiration on an authenticated connection we would not have it either. It's
just that nobody seems to know how that connection seems to go from being
authenticated to no longer authenticated.

The multiple credentials for the resource is really not accurate, the
credentials would have been exactly the same except that Windows no longer
remembers what the old ones were so cannot actually compare them and states
them to be different requiring all mappings to that resource to be dropped
before any of them can be re-mapped.

It's frustrating but it's an application server that has to have those
mapped drives and they just disconnect at times we have not been able to
predict.


"Dave Patrick" <DSPatrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:8D4C5303-C33A-48F9-A61C-FB9209DA0914@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Maybe this one.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/106211


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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"The_Nite_Owl" wrote:
Well, silly enough I did not save the error message. When trying to
re-map one of the drives it would tell us it was not able to as the drive
was already mapped under a different ID. This I believe is because 4
drives were mapped with the domain account and the credentials not cached
so when the connection fails all 4 drives have to be deleted before any
can be re-mapped.

We have seen nothing in the event logs related to connectivity, mapping
or authentication errors.



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