Microsoft KB Archive/164606

= Deferred Reconnections to Password Shares May Not Work =

Article ID: 164606

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Windows 95

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This article was previously published under Q164606





SYMPTOMS
When you log on to a computer running Windows NT 4.0 and you have persistent connections to drives on a computer running Windows 95 with share level access control, you may get the message:

Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password



CAUSE
If you have more than one persistent connection to resources on a computer running Windows 95, are using share level security, and one of your shares does not have a password, you will get the previously mentioned error.



WORKAROUND
Turn off deferred connections altogether by setting the following registry key to REG_DWORD 0:



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 4.0. This problem was corrected in the latest Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 U.S. Service Pack. For information on obtaining the service pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

S E R V P A C K

Additional query words: reconnect null shares pw

Keywords: kbbug KB164606

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