What's wrong with this net use command?

Question

I am entering the following command on Windows Server 2003

net use X: \\Samba_Server\gis  /user:Administrator <admin-pwd>  /persistent:yes

And I get the following error:

System error 1326 has occurred.
Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.

What am I doing wrong?

Without the /user:Administrator <admin-pwd>, it mounts fine. I want the credentials to be persistent across logins.

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 22 '13 at 14:54

You might have to specify explicitly that you want to reference the user account on the remote system, otherwise, Windows might try to establish the connection referencing your local Administrator account.

To do this, supply the domain (in this case the name of the remote computer) with the /user: parameter:

net use X: \\Samba_Server\gis /user:Samba_Server\Administrator <admin-pwd> /persistent:yes

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 22 '13 at 15:02

The syntax command that you have entered is correct. Error 1326 is a common error number used to denote authentication failures on Windows system. These failures are usually related, but not limited to:

account does not exist
guest account needs to be enabled
auto-logon and blank password is enabled on remote computer
folder or drive permissions shared on the remote computer

In your case, if you have checked that the account you are using exists on the remote computer(1), the problem might be caused by point 3. SAMBA shares has a configuration option when turned on would exhibit this behavior on Windows clients.

guest only = yes

More information on this option can be found http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#GUESTONLY

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 26 '17 at 15:16

1

One possible cause for this is invalid date/time on one of machines.

answered Feb 26 '17 at 15:16

Dmitry Nikulin

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What's wrong with this net use command?

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