Windows 8.1 keeps prompting for Network Share Credentials after every log on or restart

Posted by Peret del Trunfa on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Peret del Trunfa
Published on 2014-08-23T11:56:20Z Indexed on 2014/08/23 16:24 UTC
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I have a Network drive Shared in a Workgroup with 3 clients. Two clients with Windows 7 have persistent connections to the Share. No issues with those two.

My windows 8.1 client keeps prompting for credentials at every restart / log on. I spent hours looking around for a solution:

  • I have stored cred in cred manager, and tried every possible combination (WORKGROUP\user , COMPUTERNAME\user, user, .. and so on).
  • I have changed NT and NTLM negotiation in policy manager.
  • I've compared the settings under GPO network security with a working win 7 computer, everything is pretty much the same. -I've captured Wireshark to see SMB negotiation process, honestly I see the messages flowing around, and the share sending AUTH DENIED.. which means is how the 8.1 client formats the request.... that makes the share reject it.. Now I still don't really know why.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

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