RE: NetServer: Accessing files with unmatched passwords

[Roger Boucher <RBoucher@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not exactly.

I was told that with Windows NT you can have different userids on the
network and the 400 and it will prompt you for the login to the 400.  This
is working correctly on the NT machine I tried.  But for Windows 95/98 you
MUST have the same userid on the AS/400 that you use to sign onto the
network in order to access the AS/400 server from the network side.  If you
have the same userid, but a different password, it will prompt you for the
correct password.  This is not working, whether I put in the AS/400
password, or the network password, I get an invalid password error.

Roger Boucher
Standard Pacific Corp.
rboucher@stanpac.com
714-668-4326


-----Original Message-----
From: Evan Harris [mailto:spanner@ihug.co.nz]
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 12:18 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: NetServer: Accessing files with unmatched passwords


Roger Boucher wrote:

>I am having a problem that is either the same, or similar (and IBM has been
>working on it for a couple of days).  This hasn't fixed it for me though.
>May I ask, are you on Windows 95? 98? NT? or something else?  When the
>password was different (and the thing wasn't working) was it prompting you
>to enter a password for resource \\YourServerNameHere\IPC$ ??
>
>I'm on Windows 98 and when the password is not the same, I get prompted as
>described above but it won't take the valid password once entered.
>

This kind of drove me nuts, until I relaized that the password it wanted
was for my Windows login user profile, which just hapened to exist on the
AS/400.

By this I mean, I had a log on on the PC that was KRUSTYC (the network
administrators profile naming convention) and on the AS/400 I used CLOWNK
(my profile naming convention). As it happened I had created a KRUSTYC at
some stage and that was the profile that NetServer was trying to log on to,
not the one i expected it to use (i.e. my "normal" AS/400 signon

Hope this assists

Cheers
Evan Harris
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