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by misterit

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I have 2 Win2k workstations. A & B. I have mapped the Administrative share c$ of B on computer A.
I made the mapping on A using the typical command:

net use Z: \\B\c$ password /user:B\Administrator /persistent:yes

Whenever I reboot A, I am always asked for the password for the share \\B\c$ , like..
"incorrect password or username for \\B\c$.... You last logged on to this computer as A\Administrator"

There must be some way out of this, as I am not asked passwords for network shares I have on other servers (these servers are maintained by professional admins...). Computer B hass a fairly virgin Windows configuration, so I have not played around with its settings.

All the accounts involved have administrator rights.

So any way I can map \\B\c$ without having to enter my password each time ?

-misterIT

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by cg it

If I remember right the $ sign on the back of a network shares, blocks that drive from being shared other than for administrative or system purposes. Only administrators or power users group can connect to these types of sharess. That is why when trying to connect a user name and password are asked.

by cg it

The Windows help files contain more information on network shares and sharing. If you open up the conputer management console in administrative tools of the control panel, expand shared folers, highlight shares and then click the help button on the task bar you can view the different help files on sharing.

by chris.lewis

Are you logging in as ADMINISTRATOR? Most likely not. If you use NET USE /Persistent:YES, the *Connection* is persisted, not the password.

When you use NET USE /user:xxx , even though you persist the connection, when Windows logs back in it will try to connect as administrator, but with a blank password (the password isn't persisted).

What you should be doing is this:

Log in as your username (USER123)

NET USE Z: \\B\C$ /USER:USER123 /persistent:yes.

Note that if you cannot Net Use with your user name, then change the rights to the share, don't connect with Administrator.

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