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by cricket_moon 1 view

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Hey there. I have a server that has been seperated to it's own workgroup, off of the domain. I have network clients that are able to map a drive to it, and login just fine. These clients are NT workstation, server 4.0, Windows 2000 pro and server. We have a few machines, however, that are running either ME or XP. Neither of them are allowing the user to login to the server, because of their domain logins, I guess. Everytime we try, they are told that the domain/username isn't working. How do I get these machines to permanently map a drive to this share on the computer in a seperate workgroup? All the nt and 2k computers are not having this problem.
Thanks!

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by acattr

go to a command prompt use the "net use" command.

example:
net use w: \\server1\share1 /user:username password /persistent:yes

syntax below:

NET USE
[devicename | *] [\\computername\sharename[\volume] [password | *]]
[/USER:[domainname\]username]
[/USER:[dotted domain name\]username]
[/USER:[username@dotted domain name]
[/SMARTCARD]
[/SAVECRED]
[[/DELETE] | [/PERSISTENT:{YES | NO}]]

NET USE {devicename | *} [password | *] /HOME

NET USE [/PERSISTENT:{YES | NO}]

by cricket_moon

This is not working. It's insistent that the user is not a member of the domain. All of the clients on the network are already logged on to a domain. What I need is the VERY few (2 xp and 1 winme) that are not working to willingly pass credentials to the workgroup.

by acattr

As for answer number 1, I don't know if it will work on ME, as ME is based on 98, and I don't ever work with either one.

In the example, when I specified username, put in a username that is local to the server in its own workgroup, not a username for the domain(as it does not recognize it) So create a dumb user account on that server and try it.

for username try these, where localserveruseraccount is an account locally created on that server:

servername\localserveruseraccount
or
localserveruseraccount

by cricket_moon

It's still not dropping the domain for those users. Argh. :-) Why does this work with 2k, but not XP? It presumes the domain/ in front of every username I try, simply because I am also logged into the domain. I don't have this problem with 2k ornt.

by cg it

Humm interesting problem. I don't know about the XP but the W ME computers might be trying to log onto the domain (not the workgroup)[re their network Identification hasn't been changed to workgroup. Just a thought.

by cricket_moon

The problem is that I am trying to get domain members to log on to an NT 4 workgroup. Everyone plays nicely, except for XP.

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