accessing another computer

[iDavo]

Hi,
We have a bit of a problem here. When users connect to a 'shared' drive on a mac. They normally type the ip address into windows explorer and a login and password box comes up they type in the details of their mac account and away they go. Since two weeks ago our user have reported that their windows browser appends the AD domain name to their user name and consequently fails. For example the user johnsmith becomes xxx\johnsmith.

Please help how do I stop windows from appending the domain name??

 

[SimonDavies]

Can you not assign a static drive mapping to the device and tell it to use other credentials? Also can you see about using UNC paths rather than IP addresses instead? It maybe that by using the UNC path instead it forces the users to choose the accounts from that UNC path rather than your Domain.

 

[SimonDavies]

Also have a look here.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306992

and here

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306541

and finally here.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=281660

 

[iDavo]

Well we figured it out. Our Network admins wont allow changes to the security model. After looking at the access logs on the mac I found it was correctly passing the windows user account without the domain. So we have put the Mac in another Network so windows thinks it's accessing a server on the internet and changed the log in account/pw to match that of Windows. So now when a user types in the ip address it opens straight away without a password prompt.