Windows 8.1 keeps prompting for Network Share Credentials after every log on or restart
- by Peret del Trunfa
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.