Trying to connect to a computer using \\compname\c$

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I am outside my office and i connect via a VPN. Once connected I have
two machines who's drives I need access to. On one I enter

\\192.0.0.230\c$ at the run command prompt. When I do up comes a
message box asking me for a uuser name and pasword, I log in, and I am
good to go.

On the other machine, I type

\\192.0.0.2\c$ and I get the following message:

Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type
at this computer.


Any idea why this computer will not let me in but the other one will???
 
I am outside my office and i connect via a VPN. Once connected I
have two machines who's drives I need access to. On one I enter

\\192.0.0.230\c$ at the run command prompt. When I do up comes a
message box asking me for a uuser name and pasword, I log in, and
I am good to go.

On the other machine, I type

\\192.0.0.2\c$ and I get the following message:

Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon
type at this computer.


Any idea why this computer will not let me in but the other one
will???
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OK, I'll offer a guess...

Perhaps the machine that offers the prompt is a Windows XP Pro machine
and you are logged on with a username that does not exist on the
machine that you are trying to connect to. In that case, the login
credential screen is presented.

The machine with the login failure might be a Windows XP Home machine
(which always connects with the "Guest" account) and the Guest account
might be disabled on the machine that you are trying to connect to...?

What happens if you bring up a command prompt/window
(start->run->"cmd") and enter the command:
net use * \\192.0.0.2\c$ /user:192.0.0.2\username

HTH,
John
 
Because the other machine has sensible security settings, while the first
does not.

Any site which allows Administrative shares to be accessed externally is
taking a huge risk. External users should be granted access to a share which
gives them the files they need, but NOT the whole hard-disk without
restriction.
 
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