run command to connect to another machine...

[Joe 90]

Hi,

google and ppl here haven't responded possitively so - can someone remind me the run command to connect to another machine in that 'temp drive mapping' kinda way...

i though it was, for example,

\\10.12.13.14\d$

but i can't get any combination of that working. :undecided:

[Daz]

If you just want to open an explorer window say, then:

start \\10.10.10.10\c$

To map a drive:

net use \\10.10.10.10\c$ z:

That last one might be wrong, not done that outside of vbscript for a while

[Mark]

Drive letter before the network share name on the last one - or just use * instead of the drive letter to map the next available drive.

[Daz]

I'd use that all the time if you could invert it. Network drive connections should come down from Z, not up from whatever's available. Which is one of a few reasons why it's done in vB on my networks

[Mark]

Actually, they do in XP. It was Win98/Me that went the other way.

[Daz]

Oh aye? Glad to see they sorted it. Last time I tried it was some revision of 2000.

[mejinks]

Funnily enough, I was writing these this morning. Do you also need to inject a user name and password into the script? Also, dont forget to do:

Net Use Z: /d otherwise it will remain as a perm mapping.

[Daz]

Originally Posted by mejinks

Also, dont forget to do:

Depends how the authentication is handled, or if it's even required. In a domain so long as the user has permission to the share then authentication is handled transparently by the shell. Between a couple of PC's, if the user name and password on the host machine matches a username and password on the target, and that account has permission to access the share, then it's let in. If authentication isn't required then it just gets let in.

[Joe 90]

finally sorted it....think i needed adding to local admin or something...well whatever it was its working after makin myself admin.

[Daz]

Originally Posted by |Show|

finally sorted it....think i needed adding to local admin or something...well whatever it was its working after makin myself admin.

The x$ shares are the 'administrative' shares, and thus only people with admin privileges can access them