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Q164606: Deferred Reconnections to Password Shares May Not Work

Article: Q164606
Product(s): Microsoft Windows NT
Version(s): WINDOWS:95; winnt:4.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbbuglist kbfixlist
Last Modified: 09-AUG-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 4.0 
- Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0 
- Microsoft Windows 95 
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SYMPTOMS
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When you log on to a computer running Windows NT 4.0 and you have persistent
connections to drives on a computer running Windows 95 with share level access
control, you may get the message:

  Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password

CAUSE
=====

If you have more than one persistent connection to resources on a computer
running Windows 95, are using share level security, and one of your shares does
not have a password, you will get the previously mentioned error.


WORKAROUND
==========

Turn off deferred connections altogether by setting the following registry key
to REG_DWORD 0:

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProviderDeferConnection

STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 4.0. This
problem was corrected in the latest Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 U.S. Service Pack.
For information on obtaining the service pack, query on the following word in
the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

  S E R V P A C K


Additional query words: reconnect null shares pw

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Keywords          :  kbbuglist kbfixlist
Technology        : kbWinNTsearch kbWinNTWsearch kbWinNTW400 kbWinNTW400search kbWinNT400search kbWinNTSsearch kbWinNTS400search kbWinNTS400 kbWin95search kbZNotKeyword3
Version           : WINDOWS:95; winnt:4.0
Issue type        : kbbug

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