Michael Moser

With my Vista laptop practically every day getting access to several
file shares that are on a Windows XP box causes me a major
headache. Every other day or so it takes me at least 15 minutes to
finally get access to a share that I need for my daily work.

Initially the system often reports, that it couldn't find the other
system (which is a clear lie, since one can perfectly ping the other
side, even by system name, not just by IP address) or it reports
right away that access was denied (without even asking for a pwd).

I then usually delete all cached credentials (using "net use * /d").
This at least triggers, that the login dialog pops up again when trying
to open a share on the other system, but even though the user id
and the pwd are clearly correct, the response is normally "logon
unsuccessful - check ... ". Usually after dozens of attempts at some
point things then suddenly work again, sometimes I have to wait
for like half an hour and then try again, but I haven't yet been
able to figure out, why and when. And esp. not been able to
reliably reproduce this and getting it working in a controlled way
and right away.

This endless begging and wondering every morning is driving me
nuts!

Michael