accessing an XP Home computer

[Angus]

I have an XP Home PC on my LAN with a administrator level user and password.

On my Vista home PC I run this command at the command prompt:

net use G: \\xplaptop\c$ /user:xplaptop\theusername

Then press enter and prompted for password. I enter password for that user
and I get System error 86 has occurred. The specified network password is
not correct.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[Gordon]

I have an XP Home PC on my LAN with a administrator level user and
password.

On my Vista home PC I run this command at the command prompt:

net use G: \\xplaptop\c$ /user:xplaptop\theusername

Then press enter and prompted for password. I enter password for that
user and I get System error 86 has occurred. The specified network
password is not correct.

What am I doing wrong?

Well the first thing you are doing wrong is multi-posting rather than
crossposting.

See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting

I replied to your other post: Why are you making things unnecessarily
complicated? Why not just browse to the XP machine through the Network
window?

 

[Angus]

I cannot see the whole drive of the remote XP machine just by browsing
through the network window.

I believe the problem is that the admin share c$ might not be shared on XP
in a workgroup.

Thanks a lot for your most helpful comments.

Gordon is a ... as the song goes.

 

[Gordon]

I cannot see the whole drive of the remote XP machine just by browsing
through the network window.

I believe the problem is that the admin share c$ might not be shared on XP
in a workgroup.

Thanks a lot for your most helpful comments.

Gordon is a ... as the song goes.

Ignoring the insult, why do you need to see C$ anyway? You can't DO anything
with it over a network.....

 

[Steve Winograd]

I have an XP Home PC on my LAN with a administrator level user and password.

On my Vista home PC I run this command at the command prompt:

net use G: \\xplaptop\c$ /user:xplaptop\theusername

Then press enter and prompted for password. I enter password for that user
and I get System error 86 has occurred. The specified network password is
not correct.

What am I doing wrong?

XP Home Edition doesn't have administrative shares like C$.

You can manually share the C: disk with a different name. If the name
ends with a dollar sign, the share will be hidden. I don't think it's
legal to use a name that looks like an admin share for an actual disk,
such as C$, but Z$ would work (if there's no Z: disk).

You can include the password in the "net use" command, and you don't
need to specify a domain name in a workgroup network. So, this
command would work for a hidden, non-administrative share on XP Home:

net use G: \\xplaptop\z$ /user:theusername password
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