How to cached VPN credentials

[chicagotech]

You may want to use net use command to cache the credentials. these search results may help,

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Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"David Lozzi" <dlozzi> wrote in message news:64650408-314B-485B-83A1-66425293EE5F@microsoft.com...
Howdy,

I don't think this is a specific Vista-ism, may happen with XP as well, but
noticing it most with Vista. I'm running Vista Ultimate. When I VPN into a
customer's network my local resources try to connect using the VPN account,
not my Windows account. For example. I VPN into Customer with username of
Delphi and my machine's local items like Outlook, SharePoint, MS CRM 3.0,
Visual SourceSafe, Windows Explorer, which all assume my Windows login of
dlozzi are now trying to authenticate me with a username of Delphi. Some
items like Outlook, SharePoint and VSS I can manually override and enter in
the correct info. CRM and Explorer doesn't let me. I can see in Event View
on my machine that CRM failed connect due to invalid credentials with user
name Delphi. I cannot access my local network servers, \\Server1, due to
invalid credentials and it won't let me enter any in. This is quite
annoying. Is there anyway to keep my Windows authentication running for my
local items?

Thanks!!

David Lozzi

[chicagotech]

You could get around the credentials problem by using the "Log in using
a dualup connection" option in the login dialog box. Instead of doing a
local login first, the user logs into the domain as a remote user. But like
Lanwench I can't imagine why you would want to use that method instead of
RDP/TS. If you think VPN gives you extra security, set up a VPN connection
an then run terminal services across the VPN link. That way only the KVM
data has to cross the VPN link.

I am not sure the issue. After they establish VPN and do "net use \\servername\sharename", what's the system error?

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"Joey" <Joey> wrote in message news:7370B9FD-C212-4D91-A423-E744BE936FC2@microsoft.com...
HELP! I started working this new job several months ago. I have about 50
users that work from home regularly. I have them logging into their laptops
using their cached credentials and that works great. They use Cisco VPN
client and they are able to RDP into their workstations at work. However, we
would like them not to RDP into their workstation so that they can have
access to the network drives. We want them to use cached credentials to
login to the laptop, use our VPN client and then access their network drives.
I created a script to map these network drives automatically but the network
indicates it requires user credentials and passwords (which would be okay)
but when we put in the user's id and password it responds that the user is
already logged into the system and can't login twice. We were able to get
everything to work if we logged into the computer using a local account, VPN
into the network and then used the user's id and password. I am sure it is
probably a local computer policy but can't seem to figure it out. Any help
is appreciated.