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W7, shared folder credential problem
Hello,
I've tried searching for this problem on the forums (and everywhere else) but I cant find anything. I'm either not using the right search keywords or this has not been posted yet.
The problem is simple but is driving me bonkers.
I have a laptop with W7 on it and I cannot get it to connect to my Windows 2003 server like old versions of windows used to. Before whenever I typed \\servername in explorer, I would get a popup asking for user and password to connect to the server. Now when I type the server in exploerer, I get no prompt for credentials, w7 seems to automatically log onto the server with some default/guest user with limited priviledges of course. Needless to say I cannot access and use files at an admin level so working on the server files (shared folders) is almost impossible from my laptop now.
I've done a few things that gave no result.
-I've added the \\servername and server\user in windows credentials in credential manager
-I've removed any and all credentials in credential manager
-I've removed my laptop from homegroups, and swtiched from home network type to office network type.
-I've gone into advanced sharing options and moved the check mark to 'use passwords and user accounts' from the homegroups option.
There is no visible credential in the vault, I cannot find any option to connect to the server with different credentials anywhere in the UI. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
EDIT: Forgot to add:
Laptop, w7 Ultimate x64
Servrer, Windows 2003 Sever R2 Enterprise Edition Service Pack 1 (this is x86 i believe)