From: "Robert Comer" 

> 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.

Try it, it works, as long as there is an account there with the same user
id and password.

- Bob Comer 


"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
news:ri2mf01fglpppph43ga99lcff5a50d2bja{at}4ax.com...
> 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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