Trouble with Windows XP client on Linux network

[Jonah86]

I posted this in the Windows XP forum already, but I figured someone in here might be able to help. I'm not sure if it's an issue with Windows or with the Linux server. I think the server is still running Fedora 1...so god only knows.

Anyway...on to the question.

I just got upgraded (finally) to Windows XP Pro. We've been using 2000 forever. I'm running SP3.

The servers I need to access are running Linux, and with 2000 I was asked for a password for each server I was mapped to upon logging into Windows. Now with XP Pro it just won't connect to the servers without me manually opening each mapped drive and typing in a password. This even happens without me logging out sometimes. It's not terrible, it's just very annoying.

Also, I have multiple drives mapped to the same server (different directories of course) that don't all connect upon my logging into that server. The one drive I click on will connect, but the others need to be connected as well. It's not that I have to type a password in each time, just that applications won't access those drives and "NET USE" shows them as "unavailable" until I've opened them. Very annoying.

So in short, every time I log in and sometimes just randomly, I have to double click on each mapped drive individually before I can go about actually DOING anything that requires my mapped drives.

Is this normal? Is it just because they're Linux servers? The network admin just doesn't seem to care since he doesn't run Windows, but it's incredibly frustrating.

Thanks for reading my book

Hope someone has some idea.

 

[benlinkknilneb]

On the linux servers (maybe all in one place with ldap) you have to create a samba user for the windows login... for instance, if you login with ID "Jonah" on the windows box, you need a samba user named "Jonah". once you've associated the two properly, you should have seamless login to any share you have access to. If I remember (been a while) it involves creating a samba user and associating the samba user with a regular user account on the linux box. Here's how to do it with ubuntu, may be pretty similar on other distros: Samba Users

The other possibility is that you need to add your windows to the linux server's authentication scheme. Google for openldap and windows (might help to know what linux distribution is in use too).


Ben
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