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Old 07-25-2007   #2 (permalink)
Kerry Brown


 
 

Re: cached credentials for mapped drives and elevation

Is the account a member of the local administrators group on the Vista
Enterprise computer? If you have to enter a username and password the
elevated process runs in the context of the account that you authenticate
for the elevated process.

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Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca


"Pete Delgado" <Peter.Delgado@noads.net> wrote in message
news:Our0yyuzHHA.1184@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>I have two computers, one running Windows Vista Ultimate and the other
>running Windows Vista Enterprise. The first machine is configured on our
>network but is set up within a workgroup. The second machine is configured
>on our network as a member of our domain. Both machines have UAC turned on.
>
> When I map network drives to the machines everything works normally.
> However, when I run a program that requires elevation via a manifest, the
> network drive mappings "disappear" in the login session that is created
> for the elevated process on the Vista Enterprise machine. This results in
> the elevated process not being able to "see" the same environment as the
> user login session when an elevated process is run on Vista Enterprise.
>
> Is there a difference in the default group policy that would affect the
> caching of network credentials in Vista Enterprise? I recall that Windows
> XP Media Center had network credential cache turned off by default so I
> wondered if what I am seeing is something similar.
>
> TIA
>
> -Pete
>


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