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Net Use Question

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pvong

Flightless Bird
I have a simple Workgroup at home and all I want to do is share a drive.
Primary computer is set up with
Login: phil
Password:123
IP 192.168.60.155
Shared Name: e
Drive I want: E:

I want to set this up so it will auto login every time from my other
computer. This is what I used.

net use e: \\192.168.60.155\e password:123 /User:phil /Persistent:Yes

It tells me the password is bad.

If I just use:
net use e: \\192.168.60.155\e /user:phil

It then prompts me for the pw and i just type in 123 and everything works.

How do you get it to take the password?

Thanks!
 
D

David H. Lipman

Flightless Bird
From: "pvong" <vonger@*dot*com>

| I have a simple Workgroup at home and all I want to do is share a drive.
| Primary computer is set up with
| Login: phil
| Password:123
| IP 192.168.60.155
| Shared Name: e
| Drive I want: E:

| I want to set this up so it will auto login every time from my other
| computer. This is what I used.

| net use e: \\192.168.60.155\e password:123 /User:phil /Persistent:Yes

| It tells me the password is bad.

| If I just use:
| net use e: \\192.168.60.155\e /user:phil

| It then prompts me for the pw and i just type in 123 and everything works.

| How do you get it to take the password?

| Thanks!


It would be easier if both platforms used the same named account with the same password.

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P

Pegasus [MVP]

Flightless Bird
"pvong" <vonger@*dot*com> said this in news item
news:-O#IOJ1tpKHA.3792@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> I have a simple Workgroup at home and all I want to do is share a drive.
> Primary computer is set up with
> Login: phil
> Password:123
> IP 192.168.60.155
> Shared Name: e
> Drive I want: E:
>
> I want to set this up so it will auto login every time from my other
> computer. This is what I used.
>
> net use e: \\192.168.60.155\e password:123 /User:phil /Persistent:Yes
>
> It tells me the password is bad.
>
> If I just use:
> net use e: \\192.168.60.155\e /user:phil
>
> It then prompts me for the pw and i just type in 123 and everything works.
>
> How do you get it to take the password?
>
> Thanks!
>

This is because your syntax is incorrect. Instead of writing
net use e: \\192.168.60.155\e password:123 /User:phil /Persistent:Yes
you should write
net use e: \\192.168.60.155\e 123 /User:phil /Persistent:Yes
or even better
net use e: \\192.168.60.155\e /User:phil 123
because the password usually follows the user's name and because the
Persistent directive needs to be issued just once. In fact it makes no sense
having /persistent:yes since you use a batch file to map your shares.
/persistent:no would be more appropriate.

>
 
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Jim

Flightless Bird
"pvong" <vonger@*dot*com> wrote in message
news:-O%23IOJ1tpKHA.3792@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>I have a simple Workgroup at home and all I want to do is share a drive.
>Primary computer is set up with
> Login: phil
> Password:123
> IP 192.168.60.155
> Shared Name: e
> Drive I want: E:
>
> I want to set this up so it will auto login every time from my other
> computer. This is what I used.
>
> net use e: \\192.168.60.155\e password:123 /User:phil /Persistent:Yes
>
> It tells me the password is bad.
>
> If I just use:
> net use e: \\192.168.60.155\e /user:phil
>
> It then prompts me for the pw and i just type in 123 and everything works.
>
> How do you get it to take the password?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
Shouldn't the command be:
net use e: \\192.168.60.155\e 123 /User:phil /Persistent:Yes

Jim
 
L

LVTravel

Flightless Bird
"pvong" <vonger@*dot*com> wrote in message
news:-O#IOJ1tpKHA.3792@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> I have a simple Workgroup at home and all I want to do is share a drive.
> Primary computer is set up with
> Login: phil
> Password:123
> IP 192.168.60.155
> Shared Name: e
> Drive I want: E:
>
> I want to set this up so it will auto login every time from my other
> computer. This is what I used.
>
> net use e: \\192.168.60.155\e password:123 /User:phil /Persistent:Yes
>
> It tells me the password is bad.
>
> If I just use:
> net use e: \\192.168.60.155\e /user:phil
>
> It then prompts me for the pw and i just type in 123 and everything works.
>
> How do you get it to take the password?
>
> Thanks!
>
>

Others have given the instructions to map the drive using net use.

Now one question... is this a laptop or portable computer that may be
removed from the network and used some where else? If not disregard the
rest.

If so you do not want a persistent map of that drive. The reason: if you
are away from the network and attempt to use most Office programs they will
hang for a long time while the OS is attempting to find the unattached
mapped drive. It's a pain but the fix is to ensure that you have an un-map
drive and a map drive batch file that you can run from the desktop or to
ensure that the map drive batch file uses the /persistent:no switch. That
way every time you turn on the computer the drive won't be mapped until you
run the map batch file.

If the computer is only temporarily removed but most of the time you have it
on the network then you should have the net use command all the time
starting from the Start menu but also have an un-map batch file for when you
walk away from the network (NET USE E: /DELETE) to alleviate the Office
program hang.
 
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