Re: Access local shares when DC is down

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I'm familar with Gobal vs. Domain Local Groups, but when you say Global
Account, is this different that a "normal" user account you would
create in AD ?


ACutsumbis@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Louis, Thank you for the suggestion, i will try this solution later
today.

Thanks.

Louis Vitiello Jr. wrote:
Sharing the guest account is not a good idea for security.

One option is to include the share as a mapped drive in your netlogon
scripts. When you use the net use command map a user's credentials with it.
You can do this for each user, which will take a lot of scripts, or you can
create an global account that has rights to the folder and use those
credentials. To even further ensure connection, if you use the global
account create the same user and password of the account as a local user on
the machine you are trying to share from.

So let's say we create a user called Share with a password of 123456 on the
server. You would also create a local account on the workstation you wish to
share from as Share \ 123456. Then for the logon script,

net use S: \\workstation\share 123456 /user:DOMAIN\Share /savecred

Just remember if you change any passwords for the global account, you have
to change them in two places.

Hope this helps,
--
Louis Vitiello Jr.
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MCSE, MCSA, MCP, A+/N+
ERCP XP Pro / Net Concepts



"Joshua Bolton" <JoshuaBolton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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enable the guest account on the xp box with no password. Set up a second
share of the same folder with guest access.

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