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Access Samba using various user accounts to test functionality.

Access Samba using various user accounts to test functionality.

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TheDark245
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04-10-2016, 09:15 PM
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Hi Guys! We are about to move from being mostly Mac-users at my company, to buying new windows 10 based laptops. The issue i am having is with samba login. In Macs file manager i have an option to switch which user i am logged in as on my samba share. A little button that says "Connect as..." This is a very important choice to have, as most of our users are only guest-accounts, and the IT-admins have user-accounts to access software shares. The guest users are students and are not supposed to have access to the software share. The problem is that i cannot find a simple solution to this problem on windows. Linux and Mac work fine. I know about the CMD solution to unmount with a command and then mount with another command. This to me is an unnecessary complicated process, when i know that SHOULD be possible to just have the simple function. I have googled and tested various file managers for windows, but no one had the function i am looking for. Help me please! Kind regards, Will
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TheDark245
04-10-2016, 09:15 PM #1

Hi Guys! We are about to move from being mostly Mac-users at my company, to buying new windows 10 based laptops. The issue i am having is with samba login. In Macs file manager i have an option to switch which user i am logged in as on my samba share. A little button that says "Connect as..." This is a very important choice to have, as most of our users are only guest-accounts, and the IT-admins have user-accounts to access software shares. The guest users are students and are not supposed to have access to the software share. The problem is that i cannot find a simple solution to this problem on windows. Linux and Mac work fine. I know about the CMD solution to unmount with a command and then mount with another command. This to me is an unnecessary complicated process, when i know that SHOULD be possible to just have the simple function. I have googled and tested various file managers for windows, but no one had the function i am looking for. Help me please! Kind regards, Will