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by aguinaldo.lenoir

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Ok Here's the questions if any body can help it will be really appreciated. I have a few NT 4.0 workstations that were at Service Pack 3 when I did a Convert from fat16 to NTFS. After this conversion I ran the current version of FIXACLS on the system. But due to some other upgrades to the systems I then upgraded the service pack to 6
after this was done. My users logged back on to their workstations and had the following problems. when they use any desktop shortcut or start bar shortcut they get a logon window stating the following:
Incorrect password or unknow username for:
\\machineID\C$
connect as: ???????
password : ???????

Now this problem is on the users owen workstation. it is acting like they are trying to use the admin share but the short cuts are not pointing to this. Now if they go to explore and run the program directly it works! Please help!

Ag.
Thanks in advance

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by duskos

It looks like your users are not logged on the domain. Anyway \\Machine_Name\C$ is usually administrative share.
Do you use NT Domain for your users to logon?
If yes, then you should re-check NTFS permissions. The best practice is to put users into global group, put global group into local group and assign NTFS permission to local group. Also check share level permission and assign appropriate permissions (eg if you allowed access to group Domain Users in NTFS, but did not allow it on share level, your users will not have access.
Do you use Workgroups? If yes then it is more complicated. On each NT server or Workstation that has shares you should create all users that need access to shares. These users should have same passwords on these computers as on their own workstation, otherwise they will be prompted for username/password.

by aguinaldo.lenoir

Yes I have a Domain that all users are logged into. the short cuts have refances like
"c:\Program Files\MSoffice\Office\osa.exe"
but the \\machine_name\c$ refance
is the message that i get when the shortcut is executed.!!
as stated above

by bra-k

Answer no. 1 is correct. I have had to do this on about 100 PC's and it is the only solution. The only way to correct this problem is to recreate the shortcuts. You have to do this at the source level of the shortcut (IE Word has to be done in programs files/microsoft office) The way I did it goto properties of the shortcut copy the command line, delete the shortcut, then right click/ new shortcut/ and paste the commad line back in and name the short the name you want. If you are using MS shortcut bar you have to delete the existing shortcut and add another shortcut. This should do the trick.
Hope this helps.
Bra-k

by mpdcsup

Reset the permissions on the User's profiles and cascade the changes -- they probably should have Full Control since it is theirs. At a minimum these users need to have RWXD (Full Control minus Change Permissions and Take Ownership).

by jacho

Please try this:

1. Start the registry editor
2. Move to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies
3. If the Explorer key exists move to it, if not create it using Edit - New Key "Explorer". Select the new key
4.Create a new value LinkResolveIgnoreLinkInfo of type DWORD (Edit - New DWORD value)
5. Double click the new value and set to 1
6. Close the registry editor
7. Logon and off for the change to take effect

This and lots more great stuff at ntfaq.com

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