Microsoft KB Archive/131062

= Network Connections Made From Logon Script May Fail =

Article ID: 131062

Article Last Modified on 11/15/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11
 * Microsoft Windows 95

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This article was previously published under Q131062





SYMPTOMS
When a Windows for Workgroups 3.11 or Windows 95 client initiates a session between the client and a server (for example, you run NET USE) from a login script, the connection may fail.



CAUSE
The connection fails because the domain name is not passed to the server in the Session Setup&X SMB. Without a domain name in the Session Setup&X SMB, the server checks to see if the user name exists in the local SAM database. If found, the user's password is compared to the one in local SAM database. If the user's name is not present in the server SAM database, the server sends pass-through authentication requests to each domain being trusted. The first one that responds is used to authenticate the user. If the password for the account doesn't match, the user is prompted for the password.

This can cause problems when your network environment requires users to have duplicate accounts in multiple domains.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, manually keep the passwords in each domain synchronized for users requiring multiple accounts.

Once the user is logged in and the logon script has completed, any subsequent commands that initiate a session between the client and a server are sent with the domain name. Therefore, the problem should not occur when you attempt to initiates a session again.

Additional query words: 3.11 95 win95 winnt wfw wfwg logon script in-sync sync

Keywords: kbprb KB131062

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