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We made this change because in our testing we were able to map a network drive using this account (albeit not using a drive letter). It has come to light that some users can still not do this. We are summising surmising that domain based Windows PCs may have this disabled by policies (be they Windows defaults or implemented by the Domain Administrators).
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To work around this we have created a configuration item called discovery_use_vintage_service. Setting this to y results in our not using the new way of auditing. This is very sub-optimal because the audit script runs on the Open_AduIT AudIT Server, not the target device. Because of that we cannot retrieve a few items of interest and it will place load on the server.
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