From: John Cuccia 

If mapping to a machine in the same domain, then the domain name isn't
necessary.  It is for cross-domain access.

In a workgroup, I don't see how you could map a drive to a share on Machine
A without specifying a MachineA account, since each machine maintains it's
own user database.


On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 19:23:48 -0400, "Robert Comer"
 wrote:

>That's not necessarily true, I map to NT4 all the time without a machine or
>domain name, but it may help.
>
>- Bob Comer
>
>
>"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
>news:e41mf0dp35920b328i4m78ocaot1e2ar1n{at}4ax.com...
>> The /USER: switch needs a machine (or domain) name and a user name:
>>
>> /user:NTmachinename\username
>> On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:13:51 -0700, Randall Parker
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>Here is what I'm getting from the XP Home machine command prompt.. But I
>>>know in each
>>>case (did it three ways including with Administrator) the username exists
>>>on the NT box.
>>>
>>>System Error 1326 has occurred.
>>>Logon failure.  Unknown user name or bad password.
>>>
>>>What to do?
>>>
>>>Geo. wrote:
>>>> I think it's
>>>>
>>>> net use x: \\othercomputer\c$ somepasswordhere (note the
colon after x)
>>>>
>>>> usually I just do a
>>>>
>>>> net use * \\othercomputer\c$ adminpassword /USER:administrator
>>>> /PERSISTENT:YES
>>>>
>>>> and that makes it take the next available drive letter and makes it
>>>> persistent
>>>> across reboots.
>>>>
>>>> Geo.
>>
>

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