Resolve Windows server connection issues via UAM

Sep 15, '04 11:00:00AM

Contributed by: kuwan

I've had a problem for a while now connecting to our Windows server (both AFP and FTP) at work. I used to be able to connect to it just fine using the Finder and "Connect to Server..." But now whenever I try to connect to the server, I get the following error:

Could not connect to the server because the name or password is not correct.
The problem is that I don't ever get a dialog asking me enter a username or password. It goes straight from the Connect to Server dialog to the error dialog with no option to enter a username or password.

I've googled for that phrase, and found a lot of people that were having the same problem, but no solutions. I finally found a solution to the problem, and it is to use Microsoft's User Authentication Module (UAM). This doesn't seem to be the best solution to me, since I couldn't find the real problem and it requires you to install additional software. But at least now I can connect to the server. I hope this saves someone some time and headaches!

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