Vista - Accessing an XP computer from Vista

Hi all,

I was running a script to grab the serial numbers from a group of
workstations and I came accross one computer i could not access. I'm on a
Vista 64 machine logged in with the same administrator account and password
used on all the workstations im trying to access. The workstation is running
XP like all the others, which are all suppose to be from the same image but
may have been modified in some way. From the Vista machine i can access all
the other workstations but this one via the unc path \\<ip>\c$. All the
other workstations pull up the explorer window imediately, because i'm logged
in with the same admin credentials used for the workstations. When i try to
get to that particular workstation via this method i get asked for a username
and password but it will not work even though the information entered is
correct, the message says its incorrect. If i go to another XP system and
try this it works just fine. I went to another Vista system and had the same
exact isssue, access all the workstations but that one.

Any ideas?

Thanks

check this command:
control userpasswords2

and find saved credentials for problem machine and delete it. Seems like all
works and fails NTLM authentication.
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If simple file sharing is enabled (Tools -> Folder Options) this can occur
because Windows refuses any credentials entered, regardless of whether they
are correct or not, and uses the Guest account to secure all file shares.

Josh

"Ripp" <Ripp@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I checked, simple file sharing was disabled. Thanks

"Josh Einstein" wrote:

Can you explain this, i ran the command on the problem machine and saw some
user accounts but says nothing about saved credentials... just access
rights. Should i be running this on the vista machines having the issue
accessing the xp system using the UNC path? Thanks

"Vadims Podans" wrote:

Are you sure your account is still an admin on that box? It seems to
me like someone may have messed with the local administrators group,
which is why your script fails on the same pc regardless of where you
run it.


On Feb 6, 9:38Â*am, Ripp <R...@xxxxxx> wrote:

Actually now that I think about it, I believe I do remember seeing this in
Vista, pre-SP1 when UAC was turned on. The admin shares just refused to work
because although the admin password was correct, UAC prevented the account
from being granted permission to the share via the admin role membership.

I wound up creating shares named C, D, etc which had my specific account
granted access as opposed to the administrators group. But I haven't run
into this in a while which is why I think maybe SP1 fixed it. I know for a
fact that it "just works" in Windows 7 cause that's what I'm using on most
of my machines now.

Josh

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you should run this command on your (Vista) machine. If you haven't any
saved credentials then may be username and/or password doesn't match.

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