On my PC at work, I created a share for my entire C drive.

Now I'm at home.

Somebody else is using my PC at work.

I'd like to connect to that C drive, pull down some files, work on them locally,
and then copy them back up to my PC at work - all while the other person is
logged on and working at the work PC.

I can get as far as trying to make the connection, but then it prompts me for a
UserID/Password.

I tried specifying my work userID, but it keeps appending the name of my home PC
to the ID. e.g. My home PC's name is "Asus". My work PC's name is
pCresswell-02. My LAN ID at work is pCresswell. When I specify pCresswell
over the VPN connection, it gets changed to \\Asus\pCresswell.

I tried specifying \\pCresswell-02\pCresswell, but it doesn't seem tb buying it
- keeps prompting me for the UserID/PW.

All of the above, I tried when pCresswell was logged on to the PC in question.

Now I want to do it when jSmith is logged on to that PC.

Since I couldn't do it in the first case, I don't want to call this guy up and
walk him through creating a share under his ID until I have some expectation
that it will work.


What's missing? Seems like the critical part is being able to tell the
UserID/PW prompt that the id being specified is on the remote LAN and not my
home PC.... but how? And if not, what else am I missing?
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PeteCresswell

On Mar 8, 2:39 pm, "(PeteCresswell)" <x...@y.Invalid> wrote:
> On my PC at work, I created a share for my entire C drive.
>
> Now I'm at home.
>
> Somebody else is using my PC at work.
>
> I'd like to connect to that C drive, pull down some files, work on them locally,
> and then copy them back up to my PC at work - all while the other person is
> logged on and working at the work PC.
>
> I can get as far as trying to make the connection, but then it prompts me for a
> UserID/Password.
>
> I tried specifying my work userID, but it keeps appending the name of my home PC
> to the ID. e.g. My home PC's name is "Asus". My work PC's name is
> pCresswell-02. My LAN ID at work is pCresswell. When I specify pCresswell
> over the VPN connection, it gets changed to \\Asus\pCresswell.
>
> I tried specifying \\pCresswell-02\pCresswell, but it doesn't seem tb buying it
> - keeps prompting me for the UserID/PW.
>
> All of the above, I tried when pCresswell was logged on to the PC in question.
>
> Now I want to do it when jSmith is logged on to that PC.
>
> Since I couldn't do it in the first case, I don't want to call this guy up and
> walk him through creating a share under his ID until I have some expectation
> that it will work.
>
> What's missing? Seems like the critical part is being able to tell the
> UserID/PW prompt that the id being specified is on the remote LAN and not my
> home PC.... but how? And if not, what else am I missing?
> --
> PeteCresswell

The format needs to be DOMAIN\UserID with your work password

Per Seahawk60B:
>
>The format needs to be DOMAIN\UserID with your work password

I tried XXX-DOMAIN-01/pCresswell - which I'm pretty sure is the correct domain
name and am 100% sure is my correct username; but got "The specified username
is invalid".

Time for me to rethink my assumption on the domain name?
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PeteCresswell

Per (PeteCresswell):
>I tried XXX-DOMAIN-01/pCresswell - which I'm pretty sure is the correct domain
>name and am 100% sure is my correct username; but got "The specified username
>is invalid".
>
>Time for me to rethink my assumption on the domain name?

Oops... it was syntax with the slashes.

It's gotta be XXX-DOMAIN-1\pCresswell.

Forward slash was doing me in.
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PeteCresswell

Per Seahawk60B:
>The format needs to be DOMAIN\UserID with your work password

And I neglected to say "Thanks".... so...

Thanks!!!
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PeteCresswell