accessing an XP Home computer

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" <gordonbparker@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> "Angus" <nospam@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>>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" <nospam@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>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.....

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:46:16 -0000, "Angus" <nospam@gmail.com> wrote:

>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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