[Cialug] Change Windoze UID for Samba share

David Champion dchamp1337 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 22 09:02:54 CDT 2011


At a command prompt:
Net use <unc path> /delete

-dc
On Mar 22, 2011 8:37 AM, "L. V. Lammert" <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> Need to change the login on a Windoze box (employee change), .. had the
> Windoze guy there yesterday and I thought he had it working, but
> apparently not.
>
> Windoze keeps saying that a network share is "already connected under
> another username", .. but none show up in drive mappings.
>
> Nothing shows up in the Samba machine log when I try to connect as the new
> user, so somewhere Windoze must be caching the OLD UID/PW! Two other
> shares DO mount properly, however, just not the 'home diretory' (i.e.
> //server/<username>).
>
> Does anyone know how to force Windoze to release a non-functioning share?
>
> Two issues I did notice - he did not change the name of the user directory
> on the machine (he just changed the login name), .. and there is a peer
> share to another local machine which is probabl using the old UID/PW.
>
> TIA,
>
> Lee
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