How to set user id for remote mounted drive ?

[you2]

I have a windows xp sp 3 box and a linux (ubuntu) box. The linux box exports a file system via samba. It used to be that when I accessed the remote file system the xp system would ask me for an ID/password. However for reasons (probably a windows update) it no longers ask for authentification info and 'logs in' as NoBody. Unfortunately this means that the windows box does not have write permission to the unix box (unless I make the directory world writeable which I prefer not to).

Anyways is there a simple fix to this issue ?

 

[Emulex]

net use /?

 

[Nothinman]

Yea, I've never found a good way to force explorer to let you specify a username whenever it disables that text box. It's really annoying and I have no idea what sets it off either.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Try checking your stored logins/passwords and remove if needed. Maybe the wrong login info is being remembered.

Control Panel --> User Accounts --> Advanced Tab --> Manage Passwords

 

[you2]

I have no stored passwords. Hum. This is a real problem. Is there any work around at all for telling windows to allow you to log into a network drive ?

Try checking your stored logins/passwords and remove if needed. Maybe the wrong login info is being remembered.

Control Panel --> User Accounts --> Advanced Tab --> Manage Passwords

 

[you2]

Vaguely I think this might be related to 'guest' account existing. On my system it is disabled but I now notice that you can no longer delete it; only disable it (i believe .net crap installs it).

If anyone thinks of a fix (logging into network drive MsHome) please follow up. Also if there is a way to delete the guest account i'd like to know as that might be related to the issue (you used to be able to delete the guest account but it seems they have disabled that too). Man MS must be like the biggest PIA system designers. Either they are just plain malicious with this crap or are a clueless bunch of @()#*)@.

 

[Nothinman]

I doubt deleting the guest account would help anything and it just seems like a bad idea anyway. But if you're sure that you know better than MS' engineers you could always help out with one of the many free OSes out there, because obviously if you were involved it would take off and crush Windows...

And you never did say if the 'net use' method worked for you?

 

[you2]

When I issue the command (from dos shell) "net use \\[machine]\mnt_pt /USER:[user id] windows sez ok but the problem persists.

net use /?

 

[Nothinman]

When I issue the command (from dos shell) "net use \\[machine]\mnt_pt /USER:[user id] windows sez ok but the problem persists.

You need to tell it which drive to map to, either * for next available or an explicit letter. And make sure you're not putting the brackets in the actual command you're using, they're not necessary and I'm not even sure what effect they would have on it.

 

[you2]

Thanks. that works. But the system behaves very weird; very slow whenever I access one of the phyiscal drives. Maybe not related but never had the issue before so I suspect it some how is...

You need to tell it which drive to map to, either * for next available or an explicit letter. And make sure you're not putting the brackets in the actual command you're using, they're not necessary and I'm not even sure what effect they would have on it.

 

[Gooberlx2]

try

net use \\machine\share /savecred

or manually assign/edit the correct credentials in that password manager...if you want to avoid the hassle of the popup window

 

[you2]

I actually want the pop up window. What started this thread is some change in windows xp no longer gives the pop up window and so the credentials are not set.

I see the below command is suppose to cause the pop up window. I'll try that tomorrow. If that works then I'll dump the above command. Something is weird in that whenever (and I've tested both negative and positive case) I run the above command the system behaves very slow. Does window search the net device each time I return to desktop or something like that ?

try

net use \\machine\share /savecred

or manually assign/edit the correct credentials in that password manager...if you want to avoid the hassle of the popup window

 

[you2]

Hum that seems to work! Not 100% sure I understand what the /savecred switch does.