Problem
- Many computers will not automatically authenticate on network shares even if permissions are set properly so everyone has access thus you cannot fix network permission issues.
Solution/Procedure
- Navigate to the network share from explorer after a fresh log in to be sure you don’t have a previous session open and already authenticated.
- If the computer is having issues properly authenticating it will prompt you for a username and password in the username box type “Everyone” in the password field leave it blank, and were it says remember password check the box.
- You should now be able to see the files located on the network drive. If you cannot and it re-prompts you for a username and password the user “everyone” does not have permissions set.
- If you cannot see the files on the network drive change the file permissions on your domain for that network share to allow everyone to properly access it.
- If it does let you see the files properly restart the station and try to navigate to the same place again, this time it should not prompt you for a username and password. It should just display the files.
You now have properly set up the computer to verify as the “everyone” user before asking for a password instead of always prompting for credentials.