Wonder if the patches removed plain text password capability?
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 15:38, Chris Wolf wrote:
> None of us in my office on campus, running Windows XP, can access AFS via
> drive mapping anymore. I also got a call from a faculty member running
> Windows 2000 who was getting errors from an existing AFS mapping that he
> had been using for a long time. Since like everybody else we have applied
> numerous Windows service packs and patches recently, we have been wondering
> if something like a tightened security setting in one of them was causing
> the problem.
>
> At 02:33 PM 8/25/2003, you wrote:
> >Fellow NAGers (and NAGettes),
> >
> >Yup, I know, and have known, about the Microsoft TCP/IP ports being
> >blocked at the campus network boundary. And so I understand (and support)
> >why I can't map drives from my home system to my AFS space.
> >
> >But I've always been able to map a drive from a work machine, on campus
> >here in the Physical Plant bldg, to my AFS space. However, in the past
> >week or so, it appears that this no longer works either. Normally I just
> >map through the Windows Explorer file mgmt GUI, but when this didn't work
> >I went to the command prompt to see what's going on (or not, as the case
> >may be...), and this is what I see:
> >
> > C:\>net use O: \\afs.msu.edu\fishbeck
> > System error 53 has occurred.
> >
> > The network path was not found.
> >
> > C:\>net use O: \\afs\fishbeck
> > System error 53 has occurred.
> >
> > The network path was not found.
> >
> >Note that I'm not being denied access, nor is it the case that no
> >connection is being made. Instead, it seems to be the case that the
> >network path, i.e., my home directory (pilot user id) name isn't being
> >located/resolved/whatever.
> >
> >And the fishbeck directory really does exist, and is spelled correctly.
> >See, for example, the ftp session below:
> >
> > C:\>ftp pilot.msu.edu
> > Connected to pilot.msu.edu.
> > 220-
> > 220-Michigan State University
> > 220- Pilot FTP Server
> > 220-
> > 220- Authorized users only
> > 220-
> > 220 FTP server ready.
> > User (pilot.msu.edu:(none)): fishbeck
> > 331 Password required for fishbeck.
> > Password:
> > 230 User fishbeck logged in. Access restrictions apply.
> > ftp> pwd
> > 257 "/msu/user/f/i/fishbeck" is current directory.
> > ftp> quit
> > 221 Goodbye.
> >
> >Anybody else seeing this, or is this just my issue to figure out?
> >
> >As always, pearls of wisdom are welcome.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >John Fishbeck
> >Physical Plant Computer Systems
>
>
> --Chris
> ==============================================
> Chris Wolf Computer Service Manager
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