I work for a family owned business which has two companies. The two companies are located in the same facility. Company A has a MS Domain with two 2003 servers. Company B has multiple MS workgroups and UNIX. The evolution of the two networks occurred over time. Up until a couple of years ago the two did not have any data communications between each other. Then 2 LINUX firewalls were installed. The one at Company B to provide security to Company B?s workgroups and access between the two companies.
An evolving SQL application at Company A has also been installed on some PCs at Company B. It is developed by the brother of the owner, who works from Canada and occasionally comes on site in Ohio. A new function was added which writes/reads data from Word documents stored in a shared folder in the Company A domain. For users in Company A, specific permissions restrict access control to files in the folder. The user in Company B requires write/read access to the shared folder also. I have tested a few methods to grant access. The only way any form of access could be provided was by using the administrator account from the domain. If I created a new userid and had it be a member of the administrator group it would map a drive letter, but not grant access.
The examples which worked would not permit an unattended mapping for reoccurring logons. I do not want to provide an end user with the password to the administrator account, but I can not resolve the issue otherwise.
If I map a drive via the File Explorer using the connect as with \\domain\administrator with the ?reconnect at logon? selected, when I logon again it requests the password. I have used the IP address instead of the domain name which produced the same results. The NET USE command will work but the password is in plain text.
Any suggestions?
