I'm experiencing a weird issue while trying to access a PC connected to a shared printer at my workplace. I can connect without any problems from my laptop and several other computers on-site. However, there are two specific PCs on the domain that keep asking for network credentials whenever I try to connect to them. Even when I enter my credentials, I get an "Incorrect credentials" message. I've already removed and reconnected the PCs to the domain, and also checked the DNS and SMB settings, but I'm still stuck. Has anyone else dealt with a problem like this? If you have, what did you do to resolve it?
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I'm curious, you mentioned using forward slashes to connect—do you mean double backslashes? Just making sure I understand correctly!
I had a similar problem recently. Are those two computers from the same system image? Microsoft made some changes that take the SID of the machine into account for authentication. If two machines have the same SID, that might cause issues like the one you’re facing. You can check the SID of the built-in administrator account by running this PowerShell command: `Get-WmiObject win32_useraccount | Select name,sid`. I personally used a tool to resolve it, but be cautious; Microsoft advises against using the sysprep tool on systems that are active. Just something to consider!
They were cloned from the same image! Another tech upgraded their drives due to space issues, so this makes sense. I’ll give that a shot. Thanks a lot!
Are you saying it now includes the machine SID? Or just the computer domain account SID? I’ve read about this before, and it usually linked the issue to cloning, so I’m a bit confused on the recent changes.
Haha, that was just a typo on my part! It should definitely be double backslashes.