Mapping to local drive

[Angela61299]

Hi. I am trying to map from one NT 4.0 workstation to the hard drive of another NT 4.0 workstation. Both PCs are members of our Windows 2000 domain. I am getting an "Incorrect password or unknown username" error then an "Access to path was denied" error. If I use the administrator account to connect the drive will map; what I can't understand is, if I make the user I'm trying to connect as a member of the administrators group, I still can't map. Does anyone know what could be going on? Thanks.

 

[wolluf]

Check out the exact permissions (share & security) on the drive you are trying to map to (eg, it might have Domain Administrator explicitly named as having permission rather than Administrator group)

 

[Angela61299]

Hi. Thanks for your reply. I went to the PC and in the Properties of the D drive on the Sharing tab if I click Permissions, I get a "This has been shared for administrative purposes" message. I was talking to my boss about this and he said he thinks the permissions on the D$ share are different and that the only way I may be able to do it is by creating a new share of the D drive for this user who needs access. He doesn't think you can map to D$ unless you are the administrator. Do you agree?

 

[wolluf]

Yes - you should always set up your own explicit share.

 

[Angela61299]

Is there any way of doing this other than visiting each PC that needs the share? Thanks.

 

[wolluf]

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pstools.shtml

- psexec lets you execute commands on remote machines, so you could use this with the net share command to share drives on various PCs, from one.

 

[Angela61299]

Thanks, you have been a great help