Here is the scenario. We have a domain of users that need access to a share on another domain. In order to give us access to this resource, they have created a username and password to access it.
The issue comes in when we try to get users connected to this share. The user needs to authenticate to this resource, at the same time we don't want to burden the user to have to remember these credentials. So far we found the best way to accomplish
this is to create a net mounted drive using the "net use" command without a persistent connection. It's messy, and for some reason, the account still gets locked out on the other domain for too many bad password attempts.
So, I'm going to try a different approach. I was wondering if there was a way to distribute credentials for a specific resource via group policy?
So far the only idea I've had was leveraging Windows Credentials Manager somehow, but I have no clue how to distribute a common set of credentials to the entire domain. Maybe using a third party tool? I'm open for suggestions.
Now for a list of things that won't happen:
- Establishing a trust of any sort
- Giving each user their own set of credentials on the other domain