Pathworks V 6.1 & Active Directory

[Nigel_18]

We have a NT domain at NT4 Sp6. In that is a DS10 running Pathworks version 6.1. This has all worked fine until we have tried connect the PC clients via an active directory running Windows 2000 SP4. Now when get access denied when trying to access any of the shares. We can do a find computer on the PC and we can see all the shares but we cannot access any of them. Any ideas? According to the SPD for 6.1 can cope with Windows 2000.

[Willem Grooters]

Nigel,

Check chtredas in this forum on this issue, this has been questioned before.

You may have to apply latest patches to Pathworks. Yopu haven't mentioned you are on the hights level.
You need to take in account that W2K has a different authentication mechanism that WNT4. This, eventually combined with using an active directory might cause the problem.
Though it might not be related to your problem: Another matter to think about: W2K uses ths NT4 domain scheme of PDC/BDC, whereas the native W2K is different. PW can only be a member in a native W2K domain, so you need a W2K master domain controller.

Willem

[Antoniov.]

Nigel,
I'm just on work from my holydays and I still have my head on clouds ...
but I remember I could connected some PC with Win2k and active directory to DS10. If I remember I set server based license on DS10 and I updated PC with pathwork32 V7.2.

Antonio Vigliotti

[Brad McCusker]

Nigel,

I'm not sure I understand your configuration, and, we need to understand that to help you.

You have an NT domain - what role is the PATHWORKS V6.1 server in that domain? What other domain controllers are in that domain?

You have an Active Directory forest of some sort, right? What are the DCs in that forest (Win2K? Win23K?).

What is the relationship between the NT domain and the Active Directory?

The PCs used to access the PATHWORKS server are Windows 2000 SP4, correct? Can those PCs access resources on other servers that are part of the NT 4 domain?

When you say "connect the PC clients via an active directory", I assume you mean that the PCs are authenticated in the Active Directory and they wish to use credentials from the Active Directory to access the NT4 domain resources, correct?

Fill in that information, and, then we can give you some suggestions.

Brad McCusker