How to access an NT 4 machine from a W98 machine, without password for the NT machine?
margriet
backups I want to access the NT machine with a mapped drive letter from the
W98 machine. I don't know the password that has been given by my
administrator to the NT-drive. Does anybody know a trick how to do this?
Thanks.
Jan van Bekkum
Michael Scheidell
"margriet" <Margri...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Yes, send an email to your administrator and ask him for the password.
margriet
computers in the company network. This password is not disclosed. I am
afraid something more creative is needed.
"Michael Scheidell" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
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Ken Hagan
> I have a W98 machine and an NT machine on my home network...
"margriet" <Margri...@hotmail.com> wrote...
> Company policy is to have ...
I'm afraid you've run out of credibility on this newsgroup.
You'll have to try somewhere else.
However, if there were a way to do this, don't you think that
NT machines everywhere would be wide open to attack? Doesn't
that make you think it might be impossible?
Unknown
Umm... Is this for real?
Am I to understand you have a *home* network with an administrator who
won't give you the password? And you want to back up something you
haven't got access to?
For starters, what do you think passwords are for? If you don't have
access, it means you don't have access. Period.
There are no tricks, at least none that you'd understand or that I'm
willing to share with you. Call your admin. Ask for access. If you
don't get it, then you don't get it. Sorry.
Jeff
margriet
"Ken Hagan" <K.H...@thermoteknix.co.uk> wrote in message
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the machine that is now NT ran W98 it was simple: I just shared the drive I
wanted to access from the other machine and I gave it a password that I
chose myself.
What I am looking for is a way to assign a second password myself or
something on the NT machine; even a single folder instead of a complete
drive would be fine. So no hacking, but I (1) do understand that my company
does not want to give the company wide password away and (2) I just want to
have access to MY OWN machine.
dave
user on the NT machine to match your username on the 98 machine. Share the
drive, and give that user access - if that doesn't work do it the other way
around - share the 98 machine and access it from NT.
If you are wanting to connect to your company network from home and access
your NT machine at work, ask the admin, like everyone else said.
Dave
<Jeff Cochran> wrote in message news:3b97b909...@news.supernews.com...
Ken Hagan
>
> The difference is that I have full access to the NT-machine.
Well, clearly not quite full access. You mean you have physical
access, but...
> (2) I just want to have access to MY OWN machine.
If the company paid for it, then it is the companies machine.
Furthermore, if it is connected up to the company network then
it is entirely reasonable for the company to lock it down.
> So no hacking, but I (1) do understand that my company
> does not want to give the company wide password away
It sounds like you are naive rather than malicious, but the
answer is much the same. Your company probably switched to NT
precisely in order to secure employee machines. Whilst your
intentions may be honourable (hey, maybe you just want to do
overtime at weekends?) the simple fact is that any lessening
of security makes life harder for the network administrators
at your company, and increases the likelihood of "accidents".
It really has to be your company's decision whether to give
you this kind of access.