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by petadove

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I have a huge and urgent problem. I am trying to access a computer on another network but I am not sure I know how or if I did I am coming up blank.
Here is the problem.

I have to install software from a server located on network xx.xx.0.xx. Theserver on which I am installing the software is on network xx.xx.3.xx. I remote connected to the server on xx.xx.3.xx with no problem. I am totally lost but need to get this installation completed today.

Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I go go about gaining access (providing of course I have the correct permissions). I am not sure of the permissions I have to these resources.

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by sean.watmore

If I understand your situation correctly.
Assuming you have installation permissions on both networks (usually you will be "domain admin" or an "administrator" on both networks)
From the machine x.x.0.x map a drive to the source share on server x.x.3.x (i.e. \\x.x.3.x\source$)using an account which has permissions to that share.
Now run the installation from that mapped drive as you would do normally.

Hope that helps

by curlergirl

In addition to the above, if the install files you need to get to are not on a shared resource on server xx.xx.3.x you can map a drive to the administrative share for any drive on that server (i.e., the drive letter followed by a $). For example, to map to the administrative share of drive D of the server, you would type the following:

net use z: \\[servername]\d$

Of course you have to have admin access to the server to do this. Hope this helps!

by huckleberryhound

You need to explicity specify the user and domain name when mapping to the foreign server.

net use m: \\server\share /user:domain2/username password

domain2 is the foreign domain and username is your user account in the foreign domain

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