Using the Connect as: field in NT fails to authenticate

[Alvin Dulcan]

I found that putting the domain name in the connect as field works.
       DOMAIN_NAME\user_name
It had to be in all capitals in my case.
Alvin

samba at samba.org wrote:

>  -----Original Message-----
> From:   Duane J. Ryan
> Sent:   Tuesday, December 07, 1999 8:12 AM
> To:     Duane J. Ryan
> Subject:        Using the Connect as: field in NT fails to authenticate
>
> Samba users,
>
> I asked this question before but didn't get any responses so either no
> one knows or it just got missed, so I'm going to pose it one more time
> just for good measure....
> I am using samba 2.06 on aix432 with domain level authentication and it's
> working great. However, when I want to connect to a share as a user other
> than the user that I logged into the domain with - using the "Connect as:"
> and
> "Password:" fields in NT4.0, the authentication fails. Has anyone been able
> to make this work, without a workaround like using the 'net use' command?
> I should in theory be able to browse the share, double-click it which will
> pop up a ConnectAs/Password window, type in any userid that exists in that
> domain along with the password and be allowed access to the share. Thanks
> for any help you can provide me with,
>
> Duane Ryan
> Midrange Server Infrastructure
> duane.ryan at usaa.com
>
>