I am having authentication problems on my network. I have a NT 4.0 PDC and BDC sp 6a. Users log on fine, (Win98) they can access their home folder on the server just fine.
Then for no reson I can find, a user(this varies from day to day) will try to access their home folder on the BDC and they will get access denied.
*Usually* they are trying to “save” an Office (97)document in Word or Excel.
The Event viewer on the server displays this error:
Reason: Unknown user name or bad password User Name: CAROL
Domain: JHBWORLD
Logon Type: 3
Logon Process: KSecDD
Authentication Package: MICROSOFT_AUTHENTICATION_PACKAGE_V1_0
Workstation Name: \\C_HOFFMAN
At this very instant, when the user is getting “access denied” messages, I can log onto the domain on another computer using the exact username and password and gain access to their home folder. I can go back to the original computer and still can not access the home folder(Access denied You do not have permissionto access this resource).
I have seen this error associated with more than one account. Today every account never encounters an error. Tomorrow, one client will have problems, but the next day, they don’t and someone else has the same problem.
I have found that when a user gets these errors, *sometimes* they can browse network neighborhood to the BDC, open the “users” directory, close NN and then they are able to “save” the file to the server from within whatever program they were using. If this method gets the “access denied” when the double click on the BDC, the only way to re establish authentication is to restart the client computer.
I have ran out of Ideas.
Danny Sanders MCP
Network Admin.