How can I give one xp pro computer account permissions on another xp pro machine?

Giscardo

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I have two machines and a router. Both machines are running xp pro sp2.

Ultimately I"m trying to be able to execute a batch file residing on computer A, from the command line of computer B. I installed Remote Command Service and it's running on Machine A. I run the remote command client from machine B, and it can connect to machine A. If i try to execute a batch file, and that batch file tries to change directory to c:\program files\ on machine A, I get a permission denied error. I'm guessing because I'm limited to the permissions of a guest account on machine A, or the account of machine B, which pretty much has no permissions on machine A.

So how do I make it the account on machine B has permissions on machine A? Both machines are in the same workgroup, and I can set up network shares between the two just fine. I can't do \\machine_name\c$\ though from A to B or B to A.
 

Giscardo

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Both accounts using same name and password didn't seem to work. I got around this by adding the guest account on machine A to the Administrators group.
 

AmigaMan

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Originally posted by: Giscardo
Both accounts using same name and password didn't seem to work. I got around this by adding the guest account on machine A to the Administrators group.

I sure hope you don't have access to hte internet with those machines or at least have some awesome firewall installed. I can't begin to think of the security problems adding the guest account to the administrators group would cause. That very limited account is disabled by default for a reason.
 

volrath

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You can try adding MACHINE_NAME\Username to the permissions for the folder you want to grant access to. Though, that's more of a domain thing.
 

Robor

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Originally posted by: Giscardo
Both accounts using same name and password didn't seem to work. I got around this by adding the guest account on machine A to the Administrators group.

I wouldn't do that. Try removing the guest account from administrators and adding 'authenticated users' to the administrators group instead.