Cannot connect (or map) to share on member server

[bstites]

I have users trying to connect to a share on a member server on one of our domains by mapping a drive. They can connect fine to a share on the PDC of this domain.

Share permissions are set to Everyone - Full Control.

Folder permissions are set as Administrator - Full Control, Domain Admins - Full Control, Domain Users - Read, Write, Execute, Modify, Delete. I also have to add Everyone - Full Control to even connect as Administrator.

I've tried adding my account in the permissions with Full Control and it still won't work. It's like it won't recognize or authenticate any of the user accounts. I've tried adding Authenticated Users... and I've tried adding NETWORK users. Nothing.

Everytime I try to map the share, I get "Incorrect password or unknown username."

I've searched other threads and can't find the specific answer I'm looking for, I guess. This should be simple. Any ideas?

 

[Jpoandl]

Can you map a drive from this memember server to the PDC?

Are you sure this memember server is part of your domain?

The NTFS and share permissions should have been picked from the domain...not the local machine. You should see a drop down list from your domain....make sure you select names from here.

As an administrator from another machine, can you map a drive to c$ of this machine?

Create a test folder on this machine. Assign NTFS and share permissions to it. Try to connect remotely. What are the results?

Check the event viewer of this problematic server for errors?

Hope some of this helps. Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2000

 

[bstites]

Thanks, Joseph.

Yes... I can map a drive from the member server to the PDC.

Yes... I am sure the member server is part of the domain (I checked... lol).

Yes... permissions / accounts are coming from the domain (again... I checked).

When trying to map to c$, I am successful when I use the Administrator account, but NOT when I use my account (and I am an administrator).

On a test folder, the same thing happens... success with Administrator account... nothing with my account.

Event viewer shows nothing since September 3rd.

I know this has got to be a simple permissions problem!

ARGGHH!!!

 

[Jpoandl]

"When trying to map to c$, I am successful when I use the Administrator account, but NOT when I use my account (and I am an administrator)."

It sounds to me like there is a problem with your account? Seeing how you can map a drive to C$ using the domain administrator account but not with your account. You might want to try to create a new user with administrative rights (on the domain). Use this account to map a drive to C$. This test will help pinpoint the problem.


As far as permissions, it looks right to me. Leave your share permissions broad...everyone Full or Change. (You might want to double check the share permissions...make sure you select a group from the domain list...not the local list....I know, you have probably already tried this.) Then, make your NTFS permissions more restrictive. For example, make the NTFS permissions for domain admin Full Control and make NTFS permissions for domain users change. This should be fine.

It really sounds like a problem with your account or something....seeing how you can even get the Domain drop down list for permission. You wouldn't be able to get this if you werent connected to the domain properly. Although, if you want, you could remove the server from the domain and re-join. This will only take a few minutes and might be worth ruling out.

Try to use a variety of accounts to attach to the server...maybe you can see a pattern.

How are you mapping the drive? From what type of workstations? Maybe this is a client related problem. Are the client machines joined to the same domain?

Even if your account is an administrator of your local machine, you don't have administrative rights to the domain. You would have to go into User Manager for Domains and place your account into the Domain Admins.

Hope some of this helps..

Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2000

 

[bstites]

I'm beginning to believe this is a client related problem.

Clients are using Windows 2000 Professional Workstations, BUT connecting to a Novell network. From this Novell network then is where I'm trying to map the drive to this member server.

Mapping a drive to the PDC works fine... users put in their username and password from the domain and connect. Mapping to this server doesn't... using the same username and password they used connecting to the PDC. So, I'm wondering if (or why) it's not seeing the "domain" user accounts. It appears as if it's only seeing "local" accounts for this member server... i.e. Administrator. Even when I put Everyone - Full Control in the file permissions, it still won't allow anyone other than the Administrator account to connect.

I feel like I'm beating a dead horse here. Maybe I should just remove this server from the domain and run it as a stand-alone server... but that would defeat the whole purpose of getting all of the NT servers here under one domain. Sigh.

 

[tpulley]

Not sure if it is relevant but..... Alot of times when mapping a drive to a NT server outside of a domain, if there is no user account on the local directory database, this error will occur. It seems to ask you for a password but for the IPC$. Which you won't get there from here if this is the case.

Try this...

From a command prompt type:

net use * \\servername\sharename /User:username

It should prompt you for that users password.

If input correctly you should be jammin....

If not then try as mentioned above, copy the admin account (F8 key) creating a separate account and see if that works.

Hope this helps.