I have got around this by mapping the drives using NET USE during login,
rather than letting Explorer reconnect. You can then specify the username
and password to be used.
At 12:09 2/04/2001, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I hoping someone out there can help resolve a small annoying problem
>with win2000 machines connecting to Samba.
>
>Have a linux server running samba in which all our office winX desktops
>connect to. This is running fine with all winX machines having the reg
>hack done so connecting to the server is not a problem.
>
>The problem lies when Win2000 desktops initially try to connect to the
>linux server. An error is received with an incorrect username and
>password message. It then prompts for an alternative username and
>password in which case a successful connection is established after the
>user enters his details.
>
> >From what I can gather is that the Win2000 initially tries to connect to
>Samba with the "machine name/username" combination. I believe Samba is
>set up so that it only the "username" of the client is used for
>authentication.
>
>Does anyone know a work around this problem?. Granted it's a small
>issue.. but not when each staff member complains about it each
>morning.
>
>regards
>Michael
>
>
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>
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