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Shortcuts that prompt for Domain Authenication

We have a conference room PC that is setup to auto logon with a generic user account.  We want to create shortcuts to a number of network shared folders that will prompt for User name and password.  The generic account is not to have access to the folders itself.  We want the users to be able to click on the shortcuts and put their credentials in to access the data.  Also we would like it so that when the folder is closed and opened again it prompts for credentials each time as this machine will not likely be rebooted very often.  The Conference room PC is currently running Windows XP Pro.  How can this be accomplished?
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You would need to write a vbs script that calls for the username and password and then opens the relevent folder with those credentials. But i feel this is frought with issues.

Why not just get users to log on to the system with their own accounts?



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Andrew
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Andrew,

Can you provide a sample vbs script that i could work from?  Unfortunately as i agree it would just be better to have each user just log on with their own accounts which is how they are doing it now.  The business unit has asked for an auto logged on user account because the site is a remote construction site and it takes much too long for their profiles to load each time they log off and back on.  Also this machine is being used by multiple people in a meeting environment and a number of people may take control to show their piece and it is not practical for users to log off and back on for each presenter.  I hope this makes sense.

Thanks

Daniel
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This works perfect for what we are doing.  Thanks a Million!!

Daniel
Andrew,

Is there a way to mask the password on that VBS script you gave me?

Thanks

Daniel