We have one server (W-SERVER) that is in its own workgroup outside of our Windows 2000 domain (DOMAIN). However, I have a handful of users who need to map to a password-protected network share on this workgroup server.
We can map the share using a user account that is local to the workgrouped server (W-SERVER\USER1), but as soon as we reboot, Windows insists on using the domain logon credentials (DOMAIN\USER) to try to re-map the share.
I can fix the problem by using a logon script (or even a script that is run manually when the mapping is needed), but that means I have to store the plain-text password somewhere, which is a Very Bad Idea.
Is there any way to keep the other server out of the domain and securely and conveniently map the share? We need to keep the server out of the domain because we have a domain admin that isn't supposed to have access to those resources.
TIA
We can map the share using a user account that is local to the workgrouped server (W-SERVER\USER1), but as soon as we reboot, Windows insists on using the domain logon credentials (DOMAIN\USER) to try to re-map the share.
I can fix the problem by using a logon script (or even a script that is run manually when the mapping is needed), but that means I have to store the plain-text password somewhere, which is a Very Bad Idea.
Is there any way to keep the other server out of the domain and securely and conveniently map the share? We need to keep the server out of the domain because we have a domain admin that isn't supposed to have access to those resources.
TIA
