Some people make use of the “Connect using different credentials feature” when working with different permissions is required:
It seems that this can sometimes result in the error message “The network folder specified is currently mapped using a different user name and password” error message.” The message can occur even when this is not the case!
Microsoft state that this behaviour is by design and provide a workaround.
“Use the IP address of the remote server when you try to connect to the network share”
This does seem to work but requires that you know the name of the IP of the server you are connecting to. This can easily be found out using the command:
Ping servername
I vaguely remember having reason to use more than two credentials for a server. I think you can also assign other host names to the IP by modifying a hosts file buried somewhere in system32
After all the tests, a real comment:
I vaguely remember having reason to use more than two credentials for a server. I think you can also assign other host names to the IP by modifying a hosts file buried somewhere in system32 (analogous to the UNIX hosts file) and add lines
10.0.0.1 server server- server– server—
Then you can use each name for each set of credentials.
Jon, that would be analogous to the UNIX etc/hosts file, yes?