I am hoping someone on the list can shed some light for me on this.
I have a smb server with shares configured and I know that they are working
properly. I have now had the same experience with three new users and can't
explain the behavior. Not sure if it's samba related or and issue in Win XP
but I thought I'd ask here first.
On the XP box user logs in and attempts to map the share. (our samba server does
not authenticate via a domain controller rather a local smbpasswd file) When
they map the share they click on use different user name and enter their samba
username and password, and check reconnect at logon. The mapped drive connects
and everything looks fine.
Here is when the problems begin... when the user logs out of XP. The next logon
shows the mapped drives but does not connect to them automaticaly. When the user
attempts to access the shared drives they are prompted for authentication, XP
assumes that the authentication is via the domain controller and prompts for the
domain account which will not connect.
Is there any way to force the mapped shares to reconnect at login using the
samba account and password without the user needing to re-authenticate the
shares eachtime they log in?
FWIW: I've never seen this behavior on Win 2K.
Any Ideas?
