connecting to shares on a computer *not* connected to the domain

[Booty]

Say I want to bring my laptop in to work to access some files - I can hook it up to the network and access the internet and all that good stuff... I can even remote desktop into it. But, I can't access the network shares. Is there a way to set this up?

 

[spyordie007]

yes, browse to the UNC path of the machine (\\computername\share or \\ipadress\share); you should be prompted for a username and password (computername\username + password)

 

[Dahak]

Actually, i was wondering the same thing, because i can browse the unc path but gives me an error and i dont get the option of specifing a username and password

 

[gwag]

try adding a local account on your labtop using your name and password you use on your desktop??? or check the permissions and security on the share your tring to get at.
BTW if you can remote desktop, before establishing the connection click optons, local resourses and check disk drives. when logged on your labtop go into "my computer" and you can see your home computers local drives from you labtop if you want to copy files.

 

[FoBoT]

don't forget to disable simple file sharing

 

[ND40oz]

Start, Run, \\computer\sharename, click ok. It should prompt you for the username and password. User name is Domain\username and password is your domain password. You probably don't have DNS for your work environment setup on your laptop, so you'll need to use the fully qualified domain name of the computer. Something like \\Server.ad.microsoft.com\"sharename"

 

[Woodie]

Another option...
CLI>
net use * \\servername\sharename /userOMAIN\username *

it will then prompt you for the password, and assign the next available drive letter to that share. Note: If you need to map to other shares on the same server, you do NOT need to specify the /user parameter after the first mapping.

 

[oog]

the cli option woodie suggested is how i do it -- it helps because you can specify the domain username that you want to connect with.

 

[NogginBoink]

net use \\servername\sharename /useromain\username

You'll be prompted for password.

 

[Booty]

Wow, I just re-read my post... wasn't all that clear. I want to access the shares on the laptop from the work machine, not the other way around (accessing domain resources from the laptop). You could get it done either way, I suppose, but wanted to see if it could be done... I'm going to try some of the suggestions on here from people who interpreted it the way I meant it and update.

Oh, and yeah... using that option in remote desktop worked, but it'd be nice to not need to use RD to transfer stuff.

 

[Woodie]

CLI will work just as well the other way:
net use * \\laptopIPaddress\sharename /user:LaptopName\LaptopUserID *