Guest dath Posted March 14, 2008 Posted March 14, 2008 I have a Vista laptop user that does not want to join the domain and he wants access to a shared folder on the 2003 DC without having to join the domain. I setup a mapped drive on his desktop and checked the box to automatically login each time he reboots with admin creds. Now each time he reboots it requires him to enter in the admin user name and pw and he wants it to do it automatically. I know with my old 2000 DC and XP I could setup a user on the DC with the same name and pw as the xp user who is in a workgroup and it would pass through but will this work the same with 2003 and vista? I just dont want to show up and setup a new user only to find out that it does not work with Vista. Any advice would be most helpful thank you.
Guest albert.valentin@gmail.com Posted March 14, 2008 Posted March 14, 2008 Re: Vista user needs to authenticate with 2003 DC without joiningdoma Re: Vista user needs to authenticate with 2003 DC without joiningdoma On Mar 14, 4:48 pm, dath <d...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I have a Vista laptop user that does not want to join the domain and he wants > access to a shared folder on the 2003 DC without having to join the domain.. > I setup a mapped drive on his desktop and checked the box to automatically > login each time he reboots with admin creds. Now each time he reboots it > requires him to enter in the admin user name and pw and he wants it to do it > automatically. I know with my old 2000 DC and XP I could setup a user on the > DC with the same name and pw as the xp user who is in a workgroup and it > would pass through but will this work the same with 2003 and vista? I just > dont want to show up and setup a new user only to find out that it does not > work with Vista. Any advice would be most helpful thank you. I think your easiest option is to just create an account in AD for his use. No need to join the computer to your domain. When he tries to access that shared folder he would only need to write the username/ password provided to him to access any information he's permitted to see in your network.
Guest dath Posted March 15, 2008 Posted March 15, 2008 Re: Vista user needs to authenticate with 2003 DC without joining Re: Vista user needs to authenticate with 2003 DC without joining "albert.valentin@gmail.com" wrote: > On Mar 14, 4:48 pm, dath <d...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > I have a Vista laptop user that does not want to join the domain and he wants > > access to a shared folder on the 2003 DC without having to join the domain.. > > I setup a mapped drive on his desktop and checked the box to automatically > > login each time he reboots with admin creds. Now each time he reboots it > > requires him to enter in the admin user name and pw and he wants it to do it > > automatically. I know with my old 2000 DC and XP I could setup a user on the > > DC with the same name and pw as the xp user who is in a workgroup and it > > would pass through but will this work the same with 2003 and vista? I just > > dont want to show up and setup a new user only to find out that it does not > > work with Vista. Any advice would be most helpful thank you. > > I think your easiest option is to just create an account in AD for his > use. No need to join the computer to your domain. When he tries to > access that shared folder he would only need to write the username/ > password provided to him to access any information he's permitted to > see in your network. > The whole point is to get it so he does not have to login each time he tries to access this shared folder after he reboots. I know it sounds ridiculous he would avoid all these problems if he just joined the domain but he refuses to do so.
Guest lforbes Posted March 16, 2008 Posted March 16, 2008 Re: Vista user needs to authenticate with 2003 DC without joining Re: Vista user needs to authenticate with 2003 DC without joining Hi, You could use the net use command line in a batch file. It has the ability to put in the username and password. That is what I use for my non-domain laptops. Type net use at the command line for more info. Cheers, Lara "dath" wrote: > > > "albert.valentin@gmail.com" wrote: > > > On Mar 14, 4:48 pm, dath <d...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > > I have a Vista laptop user that does not want to join the domain and he wants > > > access to a shared folder on the 2003 DC without having to join the domain.. > > > I setup a mapped drive on his desktop and checked the box to automatically > > > login each time he reboots with admin creds. Now each time he reboots it > > > requires him to enter in the admin user name and pw and he wants it to do it > > > automatically. I know with my old 2000 DC and XP I could setup a user on the > > > DC with the same name and pw as the xp user who is in a workgroup and it > > > would pass through but will this work the same with 2003 and vista? I just > > > dont want to show up and setup a new user only to find out that it does not > > > work with Vista. Any advice would be most helpful thank you. > > > > I think your easiest option is to just create an account in AD for his > > use. No need to join the computer to your domain. When he tries to > > access that shared folder he would only need to write the username/ > > password provided to him to access any information he's permitted to > > see in your network. > > > The whole point is to get it so he does not have to login each time he tries > to access this shared folder after he reboots. I know it sounds ridiculous > he would avoid all these problems if he just joined the domain but he refuses > to do so.
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