I couldn't really explain my situation any better, so I spoke to the system admin. He explained it thusly:
The windows user was associated with a user and I was trying to make actions that only user had the credentials to do.
** [Unix] | --Samba-- [Win1] --VNC-- [My Computer]
I couldn't do this without having a windows user associated with . So a quick solution would be to make my own windows user .
[Unix] | --Samba-- | [Win1] --VNC-- [My Computer]
But, Windows Virtual Machine, like all versions of windows (except Terminal Server) - can only support one user at a time. So to access I would have to log out user meaning the two users could not work simultaneously.
In the end, the solution was to create a cloned virtual machine [Win2] associated with user so that both users could work simultaneously.
[Unix] --Samba-- [Win1] [Win2] --VNC-- [My Computer]