Article ID: 99191
Article Last Modified on 10/31/2006
This article was previously published under Q99191
SUMMARY
Sometimes, attempting to connect to a file server with user level security with a basic boot disk returns the message: "Connection Refused or Syntax Error".
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Here is how to remove this condition:
- Create a boot disk.
Format a floppy disk with system on it. Run ndisk/f from your ninstall directory to create a basic bootdisk. The server copies all the necessary files to the floppy disk
- Use the disk you just created to boot your workstation.
- After boot up, net start your workstation. Type: net start wksname [enter]. Wksname can be your user id.
NOTE: If your user id has user or admin. rights and a password, you must put an asterisk with your net use. If you don't, you get the error: Connection refused or syntax error.
- Type: Net use k: \\srvname\sharename * [enter].
This prompts you for a password.
- If you don't have a password for the wksname you put in, you are logged in with the privileges assigned to that account.
- If your user id doesn't have a password, and you delete or disable your guest account, you get the error: access denied.
Here is an example of autoexec.bat:
@echo off set path=\LANMAN\basic c:\LANMAN\drivers\protocol\netbeui\netbeui.exe c:\LANMAN\basic\netbind net start workstation admin net use k: \\server1\c$ *
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