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Sign in as a different user

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  • Started 3 days ago by mpjtaylor
  • Latest reply from erugalatha

  1. mpjtaylor
    Member

    I have come accross this twice now on a Windows XP machine and a Windows Vista machine both running latest IE7. If I sign in as me on someone elses machine while they are logged on as them (as I have more rights) I cannnot get it to stop signing in as me again. Tried sign off, restart IE, reboot, clear cache, delete cookies everything. After a while the Vista machine rectified itself but now over a week later the XP machine still signs into SharePoint as me. Even though email, Communicator, the pc are all logged in as the other person.

    How on earth can this be fixed!

    Posted 3 days ago #

  2. erugalatha
    Member

    Just guessing here but is there a setting in IE7 options for changing automatic logon.

    Go to Tools | Options | Choose Security Tab | Select Intranet (or whichever zone you need to change) | Select Custom Level

    Now scroll down to the end in the list and find User Authentication Section -> Logon and change to whatever suits you here (first note what it is set to now before changing). Try setting it to "Prompt for username and password" and this might reset whatever is holding your data on that machine. Later try changing it back to Automatic Logon with Current Username and Password.

    Posted 3 days ago #

  3. mpjtaylor
    Member

    Hi thanks for the reply, As the site was in the Intranet Zone I cannot change the User Authentication as its greyed out. However I did try moving it to trusted and trying differnt User Authentications. Nothing has fixed it still the same.

    A real problem as I have Administrator permissions to every site collection and she should have very few permissions to only some sites!!

    any other ideas :(

    Thanks

    Marcus

    Posted 3 days ago #

  4. mpjtaylor
    Member

    This could also be tied to roaming profiles I believe at the time I signed in on a laptop that neither of us actually normally use it was in a meeting meaning that she may have signed off the machine while I was logged into SharePoint therefore saving her profile back to the server,.

    Not sure that sheds any light on anything mind!

    Marcus

    Posted 3 days ago #

  5. erugalatha
    Member

    In that case you might need to remove both profiles from the machine. These are usually in the Documents and Settings folder if this is a Windows XP machine.

    Make sure you save any documents etc. from the Profile before removing it if you need them.

    If I need to sign into SharePoint as myself on someone elses machine I never use the "Sign in as different user" within the SharePoint dropdown. I always Right-Click on Internet Explorer and choose Run As... and type in the username and password that I want to sign in as.

    Posted 3 days ago #

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