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| Bill Mote:
I add an account called "localshare" and give it a cryptic password on every machine. Then I can map to my machines using a known-good account: net use b: \\{computer name}\{share name} /user:localshare password /persistent:NO dot |
| hypernova:
--- Quote from: dot on October 25, 2006, 09:10:55 pm ---I add an account called "localshare" and give it a cryptic password on every machine. Then I can map to my machines using a known-good account: net use b: \\{computer name}\{share name} /user:localshare password /persistent:NO dot --- End quote --- Besides the account name and password, that lingo is beyond my technical comprehension. I'll check everything else out tomorrow. |
| leapinlew:
--- Quote from: hypernova on October 25, 2006, 10:19:49 pm --- --- Quote from: dot on October 25, 2006, 09:10:55 pm ---I add an account called "localshare" and give it a cryptic password on every machine. Then I can map to my machines using a known-good account: net use b: \\{computer name}\{share name} /user:localshare password /persistent:NO dot --- End quote --- Besides the account name and password, that lingo is beyond my technical comprehension. I'll check everything else out tomorrow. --- End quote --- What he's doing is mapping a drive letter to a network drive using credentials he's created already. You can do this from the run prompt. It will only work if you substitute localshare with a known good username and password with a known good password. if you click start\run and type \\computername or \\IP Address (use the name of the other computer or the IP address of the other computer) it should show you a list of files you have shared (unless you've applied security). It would be nice to know how the results of trying either of these. |
| Bill Mote:
Oops. Sorry. Assumed a little too much apparently. Another tip; do this from a command prompt. It will work from a Run dialog as advertised, but you won't see any success/failure messages. If you drop the "/persistent:NO" part then your machine will auto-magically reconnect to the drive letter you specified in the command. So, when you go looking for files on that machine you simply open My Computer and double-click on the "B" drive. Hope I'm being helpful and not confusing things ... dot |
| hypernova:
This just isn't making ANY sense, at all. Both PCs connect to the 'net just fine through the router via WPA-PSK encryption on the same wireless network. Router is configured for that as well. Both PCs have unique names. Both PCs are part of the same workgroup (no domains in the house, obviously.) I have Windows firewall turned off on both PCs while trying to figure this out. Here's what I want to happen: I want to access my arcade's PC from my main PC. I don't care about, or even want to access my main PC from my arcade's PC. Here's as far as I got: I got the Shared Documents folder to show up on my arcade's PC, but wouldn't allow access to it. (It was shared so I could test it out. I also shared my D drive-a second partition on the HD, but that wouldn't show at all.) So the wrong PC showed the file that I didn't care about. I couldn't ever get my main PC to show anything from the other PC. I tried everything on here including dot's initial prompt message. Got a Q on that one: Computer name is the other PC's name. Local share and password is just a username from the other PC with it's respective password. What is "share name?" The folder's name I'm trying to access? Do I use the {} ? I did with and without, and no dice. My wireless router is listed as 192.168.1.1. The first pc is listed as 192.168.1.2, the second pc is ...1.3. I assume those are the IP numbers I was supposed to use? If so, they didn't work. Using the PC names in a run prompt didn't work either. I've also tried these things, assuming Windows might be picky on workgroup names: 1. Used regular "network setup wizard." Yielded a workgroup name of "WORKGROUP."--Nothing 2. Right clicked my computer, and under the computer name in properties, clicked "network ID." That yielded a workgroup name MSHOME.--Nothing. 3. Did another setup wizard, changed the connection type to "through a hub" rather than "through a residential gateway," and workgroup name HYPERNOVA.--Nothing. What in God's name is wrong? Wired, this thing worked flawlessly. To add even more confusion, it connected just fine one night, and I transferred a small folder from my arcade to my main PC. The very next day, when nothing was changed, nothing works anymore. :angry: :hissy: :timebomb: :banghead: :badmood: :dizzy: :cry: ??? :dunno :censored: Wow, so many smilies express my feelings... |
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