Re: Password problem Windows to VisionFS login

ubw wrote:
Steve M. Fabac, Jr. wrote:
I just installed a Windows Server 2003 R2 system at
a client's office where we are moving the client from RealWorld Sales and Marketing on the SCO box to ACT! on the Windows server with thin clients.

Problem: This is my first Windows 2003 Server install so I am trashing around with the password issue.
The unix box is Openserver 5.0.4 with SCO VisionFS (ver 3.10.905)

On a Windows XP box, I would use "user Accounts" -> "Manage my network
passwords" but on Server 2003, all I see is control Panel -> manage
stored passwords. I tried setting up a users password there for connecting windows user bob to scosysv as bob@scosysv with
bob's visionfs password but that failed.
I logged into the Server 2003 console as bob (not an administrator)
and attempted to map a network drive. I was able to browse the network, select the UNIX box and see the VisionFS shares. but when I clicked on "vision tools" I was asked for a login name and password. I supplied
Bob's name and bob's visionfs password (bob works when logged in from
a Windows XP box), but Windows 2003 was unable to connect to the vision
FS share.
Anyone familiar with Windows Server 2003 R2 and connecting
to VisionFS on SCO?


You can try updating VisionFS to ver 3.10.911 available at ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/vision/VisionFS/3.1/

I think that patch fixed some Win2K issues.

ubw

Thanks for the response. I just returned to this problem today
and checked the client's machine. 3.10.905 is the version reported
in Custom but the true level is 3.10.911 as a result of installing
patch-vfs-i3sco0325-3.10.911.

It's good to see that the link above works. Many people have been
looking for the last version of SCO VisionFS provided by SCO.

In my customer's case, they are already running the patched version.

I did find a work around: I ran the VisionFS profile editor from an
existing Windows 98 system where I logged in as "root" and changed
the authentication from "Use only VisionFS passwords (Encrypted)"
to "Use a domain or another server" and entered the server name of
the Windows Serer 2003 R2 machine (win2003svr in this case). I
also clicked the WINS tab in server properties and checked "register
names with these WINS servers" and entered the win2003svr name.

I then set up a user on the Windows 2003 Server named "root" full
name "root" Description "UNIX system administration account" and
gave it the same password as used for root on the UNIX box (to
prevent having to remember different passwords).

Once that was done, I was able to map a drive letter on win2003svr to
\\scosysv\visiontools as drive U: and selected "connect using a different
user name" and specified win2003svr\root and "reconnect at logon."
After that, I was able to open the U:\visionfs and run the profile
editor from the Windows server 2003 console while logged in as
administrator.

The only drawback is that I now have to create accounts on the
Win2003svr for all the users in the company with Windows XP or
Windows 98 computers that print to the automatic printer shares
on the UNIX box but don't have a need to connect to the Windows
Server 2003 box.


Danger! Danger! Will Robinson!

One note of caution for anyone reading this and facing the same
problem: Be sure to copy current.prf in /usr/vision/vfsprofile
to current.prf.back before you make the switch to authenticate
to another server. If you can't successfully run the profile
editor as root (or whatever administrative account you have assigned
to the VisionFS system) after you make the change, you can then
stop the VisionFS server, copy current.prf to current.prf.test
and copy current.prf.back to current.prf and restart Visionfs
and try again.
.

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