Network Connections Made From Logon Script May Fail

• Microsoft Windows for Workgroups version 3.11
• Microsoft Windows 95

SYMPTOMS

When a Windows for Workgroups 3.11 or Windows 95 client initiates a session between the client and a server (for example, you run NET USE) from a login script, the connection may fail.

CAUSE

The connection fails because the domain name is not passed to the server in the Session Setup&X SMB. Without a domain name in the Session Setup&X SMB, the server checks to see if the user name exists in the local SAM database. If found, the user's password is compared to the one in local SAM database. If the user's name is not present in the server SAM database, the server sends pass-through authentication requests to each domain being trusted. The first one that responds is used to authenticate the user. If the password for the account doesn't match, the user is prompted for the password.

This can cause problems when your network environment requires users to have duplicate accounts in multiple domains.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, manually keep the passwords in each domain synchronized for users requiring multiple accounts.

Once the user is logged in and the logon script has completed, any subsequent commands that initiate a session between the client and a server are sent with the domain name. Therefore, the problem should not occur when you attempt to initiates a session again.