Cannot use Net Use to connect to a remote computer.

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Sorry for the repost but my last one was missing too much data. I am trying
to remote map a drive to a friend's computer. She is at IP xx.xx.xx.xx .
She has no domain and I have no domain. There is no firewall running
including the MS firewall. Both machines are running Windows XP SP1. I am
trying to connect using an IP address, not a netbios name so I don't thing
netbios over IP should be a concern. Right now I have remote control of her
computer. I go to a command prompt on my computer and type
net use J: \\xx.xx.xx.xx\c$ /USER:owner.

There is no password for user owner. I tried creating an account with a
password but that didn't help either.

I get: System error 53 has occurred.

The network path was not found.
 
from the wonderful said:
Sorry for the repost but my last one was missing too much data. I am trying
to remote map a drive to a friend's computer. She is at IP xx.xx.xx.xx .
She has no domain and I have no domain. There is no firewall running
including the MS firewall. Both machines are running Windows XP SP1. I am
trying to connect using an IP address, not a netbios name so I don't thing
netbios over IP should be a concern. Right now I have remote control of her
computer. I go to a command prompt on my computer and type
net use J: \\xx.xx.xx.xx\c$ /USER:owner.

There is no password for user owner. I tried creating an account with a
password but that didn't help either.

I get: System error 53 has occurred.

The network path was not found.
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afaik 'computer name' has to be a name, not a dotted quad. Try sticking
an appropriate definition in your Hosts file, and see if that helps.

btw, you realise how extremely dangerous this is don't you, especially
with no password, and 'owner' as a user ID (presumably an Admin, at
that). No firewalls, open shares ..
 
Usually there is a firewall. The ID is is the IP like 209.19.49.172 - this
is just an example. normally I can do this but not in this case.
 
We are going over the Internet. I haven't tried it without the /USER
switch. She can't connect to the internet right now and I'm not having much
luck figuring it out since I can't check out her computer.
 
from the wonderful said:
We are going over the Internet. I haven't tried it without the /USER
switch. She can't connect to the internet right now and I'm not having much
luck figuring it out since I can't check out her computer.
Click to expand...

OK, last thought, I believe you may need 'net bios over TCP/IP' to get
what you are trying to do to work. Lots of luck anyway. Something like
'net time \\<computer>' or 'net view \\computer' will help you decide if
the problem is actually getting to her machine, or whether the problem
is with the c$ share, or the User: If not net commands work, then you
can forget the latter.

Have you considered the wonderful remote assistance feature?
 
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