[Samba] Vista password being rejected on share security mode

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Feb 7 18:13:39 GMT 2007


On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:07:58AM -0600, Schaefer Jr, Thomas R. wrote:
> 
> Using your patch and Vista, if I'm logged into Vista as someone other
> than username schaefer and go Start -> Run -> \\stercus\schaefer it
> won't connect, even if the current Vista user's password is the same as
> schaefer's password on stercus.  So, then Vista prompts me for a
> username and password, I can enter schaefer and schaefer's correct
> password, it still won't be able to connect.  

I need to see a debug level 10 of this from a machine with
the patch applied. This might be a bug, I'm not sure yet.

> What does work is if I'm logged into Vista as someone other than
> username schaefer I can right click My Computer, get into the "map
> network drive" dialogue, and in that dialogue I can specify a drive
> letter, \\stercus\schaefer, and, this is the key, click "Connect using a
> different user name" specify schaefer and schaefer's password on stercus
> and then the drive maps successfully.
> 
> Eagerly awaiting any comments you might have.  Again, thankyou for the
> patch, at least I have some funtionality now.

I think this is by design on Vista. The key is that Vista
does the sessionsetup as user name "schaefer" until you
select the ""Connect using a different user name". We
cache the user sent in the sessionsetupX call.

Jeremy.


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