I have a Windows account that is used for running services (ie. it's not intended that any person should log in as that account). Turns out one of the services needs to access a remote network share that's on a machine in a different Windows domain, and so needs to supply remote credentials to get to that share.
Now if it was me needing to access the remote share, I would simply open Credential Manager, and save the required credentials. But it's not me, and my understanding of credential manager is it only saves credentials to be used by the logged in user.
I can of course solve this problem. I temporarily elevate the privileges of the service account to allow interactive logins, then I login as that user and use credential manager to store the correct remote credentials. Then I remove the interactive login privileges. But that feels very hacky and not the kind of thing I ought to be doing.
So my question is: Is there another way to save remote credentials for an account other than the one you're logged in as? Any better way to solve my problem.
Best Answer
If you can access the remote computer, you could add your service account to the local Users group and match the username/password to what you would use. Don't forget to give it administrative privileges.
Then goto the remote login tab in the system menu, and add that user as someone who is allowed to remotely login. This is what I do when I need to hit certain machines that are on our network, but not part of the domain for whatever reason.