Logging into Network drive as another user

14 Oct 2008 6:45 PM

Vada

Hi All,

Does anyone know of a way to log into a network drive as another user?
Basically what I am trying to do is access a folder on the network
that I have permissions to access on another user's machine without
having to log them out of windows and log in as myself. Is there any
run command or another way to get it to prompt for my credentials,
like it would if I was logged in as the local administrator? Please
let me know if any of this doesn't make sense.

Thanks!
Vada

14 Oct 2008 7:39 PM

Steve Winograd

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:45:19 -0700 (PDT), Vada
<tanya.bar***@gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>Does anyone know of a way to log into a network drive as another user?
>Basically what I am trying to do is access a folder on the network
>that I have permissions to access on another user's machine without
>having to log them out of windows and log in as myself. Is there any
>run command or another way to get it to prompt for my credentials,
>like it would if I was logged in as the local administrator? Please
>let me know if any of this doesn't make sense.
>
>Thanks!
>Vada

Specify the username and password in a "net use" command. For
example:

net use z: \\server\share password /user:username

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14 Oct 2008 7:42 PM

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

Vada <tanya.bar***@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Does anyone know of a way to log into a network drive as another user?
> Basically what I am trying to do is access a folder on the network
> that I have permissions to access on another user's machine without
> having to log them out of windows and log in as myself. Is there any
> run command or another way to get it to prompt for my credentials,
> like it would if I was logged in as the local administrator? Please
> let me know if any of this doesn't make sense.
>
> Thanks!
> Vada

net use x: \\server\share /user:domain\username

....if the share is on the same server to which the currently logged-in user
is already accessing resources, such as mapping drives, this won't work
unless you delete all active connections first.