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Luigi D. Sandon wrote: > But we have a few portable PC which came with XP Home that should log in > using pserver. I can't get it to work if Run As User is set to [client > user]. I get some "access denied" error, i.e. creating file in the temp > dir. I tried to alias the pserver login to different domain accounts - > all of them have access to the directories - no way. The default domain > is set to the domain name. There's nothing to stop the XP Home machines using SSPI... they need to specify a username (since XP Home isn't able to be a proper domain member and always logs in as guest) but it's much simpler. The user needs write access to the temp directory, and of course access to the directory itself (read/traverse). Your error suggests that the pserver users you are logging on with are either not logging into the accounts you think they are (local users rather than domain users), or that they don't actually have permissions for the directory. Check your audit logs as this will tell you exactly what the prooblem is. > I do not understand if a pserver account should be aliased to a "local > account" which a DC does not have (only domain accounts), or if it could > be aliased to domain accounts too. Actually a DC only has local accounts.. from a software point of view the domain is something that's created on other machines not the DC (it's more complex on Active Directory forests, but not by much). > In general, the explanation on how to setup pserver accounts (and > accounts in general) is still clumsy in the documentation and too > Unix-oriented, while CVSNT is often used in Windows environments. It's pretty much the same on Unix if you want to start doing things manually. I'd recommend not doing anything though and just using the default setup.. CVSROOT/passwd doesn't gain you anything if you're just adding domain users to it, and may as well be deleted (there are reasons for it, such as using different passwords for the pserver and domain for security reasons, but if you're after security encrypted SSPI is a better bet). Tony