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windows xp and visionfs

From: Tony Lawrence <tony@pcunix.com>
Subject: More XP problems
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 07:02:37 -0500


I know I'll figure this out someday :-)

Yesterday I had someone with a new XP Pro box.  He already had an 
account for himself - "daryl" and used the same password as he uses on 
the Unix system.  I do not know the details about how that first account 
was set up (the person who did it was unavailable) but I suspect major 
funkiness.

As "daryl", he could not use Visionfs.  Very strangely, when I got 
there, it was showing the root folder - as though it thought he was root 
- but wouldn't allow him access to printers, vision tools, etc.  I tried:

changing his password
changing the visionfs password
changing the unix password
removing him entirely from vision and unix and then putting him back.
changing "daryl" to a different name in XP
mapping a network drive (it lets you specify a different user/password 
to use)


No change.  Put him back to "daryl".

Next I added a user "dave" on the XP machine and in Unix/Vision.  No 
access problems, but when I went back to look at "daryl" again, now 
"dave"'s home share  appeared instead of root's - but still no access.

I looked in the registry a bit and it looks to me like there have been 
more users on this machine than what I added.

I gave up, added a new user "darylm" to XP and to Unix/Vision and that 
all worked.

Something funky there.  Why "daryl" saw root in network neighborhood and 
why it changed to "dave" is very confusing.  Why (when logged in as 
"daryl") you can't connect a network drive even when specifying a valid 
name and password is scary.

Oh well :-)

(use start->run control userpasswords2 to fix this, see Network Neighborhood, Visionfs, Samba Authentication and all that

-- 

Tony Lawrence
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