[MLUG] Panther 'ShortName'/Unix username & ActiveDirectory volumes.

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Has anyone else had the experience that the keychain in panther will not 
save the username and password (er, it will save it, but it won't use 
it) for a remote server/volume if your username for that volume is 
different than your shortname?

Actually, I don't know that this is the real cause.  I've just been 
unable to get the OS to stop asking me for user/pass and teasing me with 
the option to 'save user/pass to keychain' each time I try to get into 
our remote server.  My boss' pawprint & pass are saved in her keychain 
and she need only Go->"Connect To Server" and click connect.  Her 
ShortName (her unix username) is the same as her pawprint.  Mine don't.  
They are 'Thistledowne' and 'christian'.

I've tried desting the user/pass entry, and manipulating it in Keychain 
Access, but no go.  On my machines it asks me for the password for 
'THISTLEDOWNE' and 'CHRISTIAN' respective to the shortname.  It has the 
proper domain, though I don't know where it's pulling that from.

Does anyone know a work around?  If not, is there a mac util or terminal 
command that will allow me to change my shortname/unixusername?  I tried 
once to just create a new user and copy the contents from one user 
directory to the other, and it has played holy hell with my machine ever 
since.  Ownership is fragmented.  I daily have to go in and change 
ownership to 'christian' and group to 'admin' and apply recursively for 
different portions of my drive.  It's keeping me from running most 
Automatic updates, doing some installs (like my copy of Garage Band), 
and getting Imovie, Idvd, iphoto, etc reinstalled.  It's a bear.

Thanks!

I should state that I've no more evidence than this that this is the 
cause of the problem.  It's the only difference I see between my two 
machines and my boss' machine.  I've had problems with Keychain 
forgetting, or corrupting passwords in the past before the switch to 
Active Directory.  I even had problems storing user/pass in windows 
mappings to said server if the login name was different than the windows 
login name in win2k before the server and my machine were switched over 
to Active directory and my OS to XpPro.  The cause could be something 
completely different, but since it was a glaring difference I thought 
I'd follow this theory first.

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