Logging into Network drive as another user

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

net use z: \\server\share password /user:username
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Vada said:
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
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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.
 
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