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Error Message When Trying To Connect To Remote Share

Posted by on Jan 30, 2006 | 4 Comments

When you try to connect to a remote share by using NTLM authentication on a Microsoft Windows XP-based computer, you may receive the following error message:

Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.

For example, you may experience this problem when you try to connect to a remote share by using the IP address as the server name.

A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem that is described in this article. Only apply it to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix may receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next Microsoft Windows XP service pack that contains this hotfix.

[Continue reading Microsoft Knowledge Base article 906524]

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  • Thomas

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  • Thomas

    Can you connect an outside “real” keyboard, or keyboard controller, and play all of the Garage Band’s virtual instruments, such as an organ …and will it mimic a Leslie rotation speaker, as it does in the Mac product?

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