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This is driving me Crazy!!!

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by dlanors

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I have a WAN, where my remote office has a Novell 5.0 box, and I am logging into an NT domain hosted at the main office.(workstation=W95) There is also a member server at the main office (NT), with a shared folder. If I am at the main office, and log into the domain, I have full access to the shared folder, but from the remote,using the same login, after logging in to the domain and the Novell box, I get access to shared files on the DC,the Novell box, but not to the shared folder on the memberserver. I am prompted for the password to \\server\IPC$. I have tried putting matching user names and passwords on all machines, including the Novell, and the member server, but to no avail. Also, if I use the administrator account, (this account only, not an account with admin rights)everything works fine. Any ideas would be GREATLY appreciated!!!(this just started happening, it has been fine for a long time!)

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by joshua1

That's a Win95 shortcoming. It's able to work on a network, but it has much more limitations. You can't access another machine unless the W95 client is logged into the same Domain. If I understood you, the 95 client isn't logged in to the same domain as the server. The W95 Client for Microsoft Networks just can't do that. You can probably set up gateways between the NT Server and the Novell Server, but it'd be easier to upgrade to W2k.

by dlanors

Thank you for the reply...but if you read the question, I am logging in to the domain, and this did work previously. I have since solved this by changing the access mode from "shared" to "user level" and specifying the DC as the security source. I also had to reinstall the MS client, so there may have been a combination of problems...

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