acessing a share

This issue is driving me crazy!

Here is the situation:

I have a domain created, let's call it domain1. On that domain I have a
server, call it server1, that has a share share1.

I have one laptop to which I login as a local admin, and type in the IP
address of server1 in order to access the share1. I get prompted for
username/password and after entering, I can access the share with no
problems.

Now I take my work laptop home, and while disconnected from the work
network, I login into that laptop with work's domain user. After loging
in, wHen I try to access the server1 share with the IP, I get prompted
for the username/password like before. I enter it, but this time I get
the prompt for the username/password again, and again, and again. I can
never see the share! I checked the network traffic with ethereal, and in
the second case I see SMB STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED message being returned.
Why is this happening? WHy can I connect to the share from the first
laptop and not from the second?

ANy clue would be very much appreciated because I am out of things that
I can try to solve this.

Thanks!

Aloha laimis,

How are you connecting to the work network from home? My first guess would
be that you have a firewall that is blocking the authentication attempts.

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> This issue is driving me crazy!
>
> Here is the situation:
>
> I have a domain created, let's call it domain1. On that domain I have
> a server, call it server1, that has a share share1.
>
> I have one laptop to which I login as a local admin, and type in the
> IP address of server1 in order to access the share1. I get prompted
> for username/password and after entering, I can access the share with
> no problems.
>
> Now I take my work laptop home, and while disconnected from the work
> network, I login into that laptop with work's domain user. After
> loging in, wHen I try to access the server1 share with the IP, I get
> prompted for the username/password like before. I enter it, but this
> time I get the prompt for the username/password again, and again, and
> again. I can never see the share! I checked the network traffic with
> ethereal, and in the second case I see SMB STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
> message being returned. Why is this happening? WHy can I connect to
> the share from the first laptop and not from the second?
>
> ANy clue would be very much appreciated because I am out of things
> that I can try to solve this.
>
> Thanks!
>

I don't want you to tell us what your IP scheme is but answer to yourself
whether it is in a public address space or not. These include any IP
addresses not in this range:

10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255

http://www.pku.edu.cn/academic/resea...l/RFC1597.html

Depending on how you are connecting you may be trying to access a resource
on the internet. Try connecting via the short name or DNS name. Try just
pinging those names or doing an NSLOOKUP. Does that work for you?

"laimis" wrote:

> This issue is driving me crazy!
>
> Here is the situation:
>
> I have a domain created, let's call it domain1. On that domain I have a
> server, call it server1, that has a share share1.
>
> I have one laptop to which I login as a local admin, and type in the IP
> address of server1 in order to access the share1. I get prompted for
> username/password and after entering, I can access the share with no
> problems.
>
> Now I take my work laptop home, and while disconnected from the work
> network, I login into that laptop with work's domain user. After loging
> in, wHen I try to access the server1 share with the IP, I get prompted
> for the username/password like before. I enter it, but this time I get
> the prompt for the username/password again, and again, and again. I can
> never see the share! I checked the network traffic with ethereal, and in
> the second case I see SMB STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED message being returned.
> Why is this happening? WHy can I connect to the share from the first
> laptop and not from the second?
>
> ANy clue would be very much appreciated because I am out of things that
> I can try to solve this.
>
> Thanks!
>

Hey guys,

thanks for the input ... here is more info on my network:

All three machines are connected to one router. All get assigned ip
(192.168.0.100,1,and 2) inside the network. I can ping server1 from the
problem laptop with no problems, and vice versa.

Also, I can access the problem laptop from server1 by just typing in
\\192.168.0.102 and entering work account credentials. But when I type
in \\192.168.0.100 from the problem laptop to access server1 I also get
prompted for username and password. Entering them doesn't help though. I
get no error messages or anything like that, just the immediate prompt
for the login information again.

I see access denied when i look at SMB packets with ethereal.

I am just so confused why this works from one laptop and not from the
other...

If there is anymore info I could provide, let me know

Thanks

I think the prolem comes from your DNS. Please take a look at DNS by
using nslookup, or use the following command from your prolem laptop:
ping -a 192.168.1.100. It should be return the server name. In
additions, please create a new account on your domain and login with
new account, windows will create a new profile and please try again.
les us know the result.

Cheers,
Long

I think the prolem comes from your DNS. Please take a look at DNS by
using nslookup, or use the following command from your prolem laptop:
ping -a 192.168.1.100. It should be return the server name. In
additions, please create a new account on your domain and login with
new account, windows will create a new profile and please try again.
les us know the result.

Cheers,
Long

hey,

I can ping the server alright, but like u suspected, the IP doesn't
resolve back to the server name. Is that a problem? I get the same
results on the laptop that connects fine also...

I cannot really login into the laptop with my home domain user since the
laptop is a member of the work domain and I dont want to touch that. Do
you think that matters?

THanks,

Laimis

long345 wrote:
> I think the prolem comes from your DNS. Please take a look at DNS by
> using nslookup, or use the following command from your prolem laptop:
> ping -a 192.168.1.100. It should be return the server name. In
> additions, please create a new account on your domain and login with
> new account, windows will create a new profile and please try again.
> les us know the result.
>
> Cheers,
> Long
>
Another thing that I just noticed, I ran browstat status on the server
and the laptop and they both have a different master browser... I am not
sure if that matters because I am able to make the initial connection to
the server and it fails in the authentication part, but this might
matter, i don't know ...

In news:%23T%(E-Mail Removed),
laimis <(E-Mail Removed)> stated, which I commented on below:
> Another thing that I just noticed, I ran browstat status on the server
> and the laptop and they both have a different master browser... I am
> not sure if that matters because I am able to make the initial
> connection to the server and it fails in the authentication part, but
> this might matter, i don't know ...

The machine joined to the domain will look for the master browser in it's
own domain. But curious, how are you entering the credentials? Is it a
duplicate name? Are you providing the machine name or domain name first,
such as:
machinename\username
password

or

NetBIOSdomainName\username
password


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>
> The machine joined to the domain will look for the master browser in
it's
> own domain. But curious, how are you entering the credentials? Is it a
> duplicate name? Are you providing the machine name or domain name first,
> such as:
> machinename\username
> password
>
> or
>
> NetBIOSdomainName\username
> password
>
>

My NetBIOSDomainName is LAIMISNET, so I am entering it like this:

LAIMISNET\username
password