u/CursedLemon

Hey all, so some computers in a domain network are having weird things happen with shortcuts on their desktop that I'm trying to diagnose. Right now I'm trying to determine how the desktop contents are generated for these user profiles, however there are no group policy objects that govern desktop contents (namely shortcuts) and the default user profiles on both the DC and the individual computers have no desktop contents. I just generated a test user account to log into a domain workstation on a fresh profile, it has certain application shortcuts generated on the desktop but I don't know what's creating them.

Is there another place where this type of thing is controlled from?

Hey all, so I have an old Lenovo laptop that isn't good for much else so I installed Batocera on it as the only operating system and frankly it runs like a dream.

I noticed that in addition to the documented controller hotkeys, there are also keyboard hotkeys such as hotkey + ESC that quits the emulator, or hotkey + P that pauses emulation (current hotkey appears to be Shift).

Where can I find where these keyboard hotkeys are configured so that I can change them if desired?

Hey all, so I had an issue that I've already alleviated but I wanted to fish for an explanation of why this is occurring. All accounts in this scenario are local and this is a non-domain network.

I was helping a client out with an issue in which they needed a new local user profile set up on COMPUTER1 (Windows 10 Pro). After creating the new user profile USER1, a piece of software they needed to access SERVER (bare metal 2019) was not functioning. I attempted to access SERVER via File Explorer and received the error "the user has not been granted the requested logon type on this machine". This wasn't to access a specific share, but to access SERVER at all via SMB.

Both COMPUTER1 and SERVER were set to a "Public" network profile, I changed both of them to "Private" and made sure network sharing options were turned on but this had no effect on the issue. I also checked local security policies on both COMPUTER1 and SERVER, they had the relevant items enabled already.

I found I was able to access the SERVER share if I created an equivalent USER1 account on SERVER. However, this still didn't make sense as there were other user accounts (e.g. USER5, USER6, etc) that were able to access SERVER without needing an equivalent local account created. I removed the local account I just added on SERVER to further troubleshoot and found I was able to get access to SERVER if I opened the Windows credential manager and manually added credentials for the Administrator account on SERVER.

My question is, usually when you access a network resource via File Explorer, it will bring up a credential prompt in case you do not have preexisting credentials. Why did it not do that this time, what controls that element of the UI where it forced me to add credentials via the credential manager? I'm assuming this is an issue on the client side rather than with the SERVER machine but I thought I'd ask it here.