network connection problem

16 Aug 2006 1:52 PM

Matt

I have used this batch file format in the past to connect to network
drives. Even people who are under two different server clients, ie.
Novell and Windows Active Directory (AD).

For some reason this time it is not authenticating the user name.

Just some background so you might be able to understand what the
problem is..
User in different location and a Novell client but has access to AD.
For performance, the application was placed at the same location but on

an AD server.
The "aa/" d user domain may be different then the server. The IP
addresses for the two locations start with different #'s. Does that
matter?
Also the users are part of a group and have a generic password set for
the whole list of users.

net use y: /d
net use y: \\XXX.XX.XXX.XX\Folder /user:aa\dez1 P@ssword

any insight would be great.
thanks

16 Aug 2006 6:00 PM

Doug Sherman [MVP]

Didn't follow most of this, but the syntax is:

net use y: \\XXX.XX.XXX.XX\Folder /user:<domain.com>\username password

aa would be an odd name for an active directory domain - single label domain
names can result in unexpected behavior.

"The "aa/" d user domain may be different then the server." ? - Whatever the
domain name is, it must be a domain whose users can be authenticated
directly or by way of trust by the domain controller for the domain of which
the server is a member.

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

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"Matt" <martino***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I have used this batch file format in the past to connect to network
> drives. Even people who are under two different server clients, ie.
> Novell and Windows Active Directory (AD).
>
> For some reason this time it is not authenticating the user name.
>
>
> Just some background so you might be able to understand what the
> problem is..
> User in different location and a Novell client but has access to AD.
> For performance, the application was placed at the same location but on
>
> an AD server.
> The "aa/" d user domain may be different then the server. The IP
> addresses for the two locations start with different #'s. Does that
> matter?
> Also the users are part of a group and have a generic password set for
> the whole list of users.
>
>
> net use y: /d
> net use y: \\XXX.XX.XXX.XX\Folder /user:aa\dez1 P@ssword
>
>
> any insight would be great.
> thanks
>

26 Aug 2006 10:36 PM

dan

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"Matt" wrote:

> I have used this batch file format in the past to connect to network
> drives. Even people who are under two different server clients, ie.
> Novell and Windows Active Directory (AD).
>
> For some reason this time it is not authenticating the user name.
>
>
> Just some background so you might be able to understand what the
> problem is..
> User in different location and a Novell client but has access to AD.
> For performance, the application was placed at the same location but on
>
> an AD server.
> The "aa/" d user domain may be different then the server. The IP
> addresses for the two locations start with different #'s. Does that
> matter?
> Also the users are part of a group and have a generic password set for
> the whole list of users.
>
>
> net use y: /d
> net use y: \\XXX.XX.XXX.XX\Folder /user:aa\dez1 P@ssword
>
>
> any insight would be great.
> thanks
>
>