Force Windows to authenticate another account to access Isilon

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Community, I know this might be a little out of scope, but was hoping someone could still help.  I am between a rock and a hard place and trying to make changes on the Isilon for Windows permissions and do not want to make the modifications via CLI because the permissions will have to be recursive and I don't want to take the chance of screwing up the permission order windows so kindly puts in place.  The enterprise team so kindly mandated PIV only access for our admin accounts and because we are not deemed important we have not received our PIV cards for our Admin accounts yet.  In the meantime I have been tasked to make changes to a directory that again requires a recursive permission change to a LOT of different users and groups that I would rather perform via Windows.  But because my admin account is now PIV only I cannot access the Isilon with the necessary permission level needed to make the changes.  I am having a hard time getting windows to force me a new authentication so that I might log into the Isilon as root.  I cleared my authentication cache and still Windows will not let me authenticate with another account to the Isilon. Thank you,

Yan_Faubert · Answer

You probably need to delete an existing connection with 'net use /delete' Just type 'net use' to see all connections. -- Sent from my iPhone

Yan_Faubert · Answer

Have you tried the 'net use' command from a windows command prompt?

Example:

net use Z: \\ \ /user:

It should then prompt you for a password. Example from my env:

net use Z: \\192.168.33.101\ifs$ /user:admin

chjatwork · Answer

Yan,

when I do that this is what I get:

C:\Windows\System32>net use \\isilon1\[SHARELOCATION$] /user:root password*

System error 1219 has occurred.

Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed. Disconnect all previous connections to the server or shared resource and try again

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chjatwork · Answer

The account I am using is a Isilon local account so I am wondering should I be using a special character to make this work, because its not working .

chjatwork · Answer

Yan, Yeah I did that, and for good measures I rebooted the workstation.  I will let you know if it works.

Stdekart · Answer

chjatwork,When attempting to log in as local user root you may have to type '\root' in the user name, as it is likely defaulting to your domain, and you need to not use \root.Notice in the above picture the Domain: is blank that let's you know it's localWithout the \ before root, it attempts to log in as \rootin this case CORP\root which is not the same as local (likely where your having issues)If going via cmd try local\root, for the user name instead of just root

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