Mapped Network Drives : Require credentials after logoff/logon 1

[AllUserNamesAreTaken]

Hi; I've got a bit of an odd'un, but I'm sure people have come across this before.

At the moment I have 31 users all on the same domain with lots of different mapped network drives. All work fine. But I'm currently in the process of setting up another domain, connected to the original domain by a Windows Server 2003 software router

I moved myself across to the other domain, in which I can still ping / do DNS lookups of machines on the other domain (routing tables work a bloody treat!) but Mapped Network Drives require me to enter my Administration credentials EVERY time I reboot.

I don't mind doing this once, but imagine 31 users logging on every morning: I'd have to run around and enter my administrator credentials into each PC. No thanks; not feasable.

Anyone any idea how to make a permanent fix to this?

 

[wdoellefeld]

Only 2 things i can think of are; 1) Setting up a trust between the 2 domains and adding new permissions. OR 2) Setting up a bat file in the startup folder for the user so their drives get mapped under the different credentials.

net use \\server\share /user:DOMAIN\username %password%

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[AllUserNamesAreTaken]

Interesting post.

I was aware of using a logon batch file, but that didn't work. It also left me vulnerable to people to finding out the administrators passwords.

So, the first point - How the heck do I set up trusts between the two domains?

- One network is running 2000 DC's and the other 2003 DC's, hence why I've had to split the network up.

Thanks in advance.

 

[wdoellefeld]

This explains how to setup the trust.

http://thelazyadmin.com/index.php?/archives/244-Creating-an-Active-Directory-Trust.html

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[AllUserNamesAreTaken]

Super.

I'm 99.9% sure this is the problem.

Purple star for you

 

[blakey2]

I agree that the trust option is the way to go, but you should be able to set up an account (on the domain hosting the data files/drives) who's credentials can be used to map the drives (using batch files as described above).

This is not great as this password would also be clear text, but it would not be the administrator password, and updating/changing it would require minimal effort.

I use this (a similar) approach sometimes for mapping temp contractors whom have their own laptops which they don't want joined to our domain.

Cheers.

 

[AllUserNamesAreTaken]

Ok,

I'm having a few problems.

My 2000 domain is in mixed mode (not sure if that makes a difference?) and I'm not quite sure what my 2003 domain is in (can it even be in a mixed mode state?)

For some reason I can't create a transitive trust between the two. It keeps saying "external".

Saying that, I don't have the option to create a trust in the "Forest" it automatically skips to the next page.

Something I've done wrong?