Peter et al

It has been a while since I posted to start this thread, but I have just
gotten around to trying the NET USE command.
I am indeed able to set up the share using the internet IP address of the
laptop. Problem is that the connection is created via my cable modem and not
via my Ethernet hub so I am losing tons of speed even though the laptop is
sitting right beside me. (The IP address of the laptop is a separate
"outside" IP compared to my desktop - I have two accounts).
If I use the laptop's "computer name" instead of its internet IP address,
the Net Use does not work, it comes back saying network path not found.
Surely there must be something fundamental I am missing to allow me to
connect the two computers via my Ethernet hub one foot away from each other
and not have to go out to (slower) cyberspace to do it???

Michael

 -----Original Message-----
From:   PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]  On Behalf Of Peter Shkabara
Sent:   November 12, 2002 11:14 AM
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Subject:        Re: [PCBUILD] Domain versus Workgroup

The NET command allow for making use of network resources even when the
network browser function does not work. Here is how you can get started
in getting familiar with it. Note that the NET command has more features
under NT, Win2k, WinXP than it does with Win9x, ME.

net - by itself gives you the commands that are available
net view - show, if possible, the computers that are on the network
net use j: \\192.168.0.5\public
  this command will create a virtual "j:" drive that represents a
connection to the computer whose ip address is 192.168.0.5 and on which
there is a shared directory named "public". Substitute your own disk
assignment, ip and share name as appropriate. You will be prompted for a
password if your computers current password does not match the one you
are connecting to. The user name on your local computer, however, must
match that of an account on the remote machine. Under NT, Win2k, WinXP,
you also have the option of specifying what user name you want to
connect by. For example, net use j: \\192.168.0.5\public /u:robert
The /u: option does not work under Win9x.

Peter

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