Accessing Network Shares/ Windows Mobile 6 -Wifi-HTC Touch- Possible Bug

I improved the security on the Win XP box by disabling simple file
sharing and turning off the guest account. The new share NTFS
permissions does NOT have EVERYONE enabled, just a username. Someone
has to log in with this username to be able to access the share
remotely.


The share works perfectly from another windows xp professional box and
even a windows home edition box and even a ppc 2003 Dell axim.


But now I cannot access the share from my HTC Windows mobile 6 device.
I type in to Internet Explorer file://servername or use the
FileExplorer open UNC and I can see all the shares. But as soon as I
select one, I get ERROR: ACCESS DENIED.

I tIhink I have found the problem. Using the security logs on XP
Professional Box, I see that the Windows Mobile 6 is trying to login
remotely using an account (username, password) that I deleted long
ago.

Apparently, Windows Mobile 6 will not give you the opportunity to
change credentials if they are not accepted by the share. You just get
'Error- Access Denied' and that's that.

Is WM6 so badly designed that I have to do a hard reset and reinstall
everything to get this working again?

Jeff
Mon May 05 05:07:07 PDT 2008

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>I improved the security on the Win XP box by disabling simple file
> sharing and turning off the guest account. The new share NTFS
> permissions does NOT have EVERYONE enabled, just a username. Someone
> has to log in with this username to be able to access the share
> remotely.
>
>
> The share works perfectly from another windows xp professional box and
> even a windows home edition box and even a ppc 2003 Dell axim.
>
>
> But now I cannot access the share from my HTC Windows mobile 6 device.
> I type in to Internet Explorer file://servername or use the
> FileExplorer open UNC and I can see all the shares. But as soon as I
> select one, I get ERROR: ACCESS DENIED.
>
> I tIhink I have found the problem. Using the security logs on XP
> Professional Box, I see that the Windows Mobile 6 is trying to login
> remotely using an account (username, password) that I deleted long
> ago.

You might try scanning the PPC's registry for that username/password, then
clearing those entries. Then next time your PPC tries to access the share
it may prompt for new credentials, at which time you can enter a
username/password that will work. Or try recreating that user account on
your XP box, giving it only the rights it needs to access the share.

> Apparently, Windows Mobile 6 will not give you the opportunity to
> change credentials if they are not accepted by the share. You just get
> 'Error- Access Denied' and that's that.
>
> Is WM6 so badly designed that I have to do a hard reset and reinstall
> everything to get this working again?

I would think the credentials used to access a share are stored in the
registry somewhere, and are thus erasable using a decent registry editor.
PPC versions of regmon/filemon (if such exist) may be useful in finding out
where the credentials are stored.