Connect to another PC on Local Network on another domain

networking domain

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The correct way to do this is to login with a user that does have access. Usually if it doesn't ask for your password you will have to force the correct credentials when connecting and the easiest way is by mapping a drive:

from command line:

net use * \\192.168.40.40\C$ /USER:domain2\username
Enter the password for 'domain2\username' to connect to '192.168.40.40': (your password)

'username' must be an administrator account on the target PC to access the admin share C$, the command will use the next available drive letter starting with Z:

To do the same thing in the gui, check the box to connect with different credentials, then use the correct domain:

connect1 image

connect2 image

If that also fails I would check your firewall/discover-ability settings. Additionally, you could right-click>share a folder normally so you don't have any trouble with the hidden admin shares like C$.

I'm not 100% sure it will authenticate correctly to another domain, but I don't have one to test with. A local account should always work though if you have one, just use the target computername as the domain. ex:

net use * \\192.168.40.40\C$ /USER:192.168.40.40\Administrator

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DextrousDave

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

DextrousDave almost 2 years
I am on a local network that consists of 2 domains: domain1 and domain2.

Now I want to connect to an ip address: 192.168.40.40 that belongs to domain2, and I am currently on domain1.

So when I do the following form MY PC on domain1:
```
\\192.168.40.40\c$
```
I cannot connect since windows try to connect to that IP/PC on domain1, and not domain2

So how do I connect to that PC on domain2? It has to be something like this??
```
\\domain2\192.168.40.40\c$
```
Thank you
- Mostafa Hamed almost 11 years
  
  So when you are connecting to \\192.169.40.40\ it's routing you to \\192.168.40.40\ ?
- DextrousDave almost 11 years
  
  no, because it is trying to access it on my current domain, which is domain1. This ip is on domain2, so I want to connect to it like that...If it was on the same domain as my PC, which is domain1, then it would have been simple - \\192.168.40.40 only
- Mostafa Hamed almost 11 years
  
  Is this a windows domain you're referring to? also how are you routing the connection from the 192.168.x.x network to the 192.169.x.x network?
- DextrousDave almost 11 years
  
  yes, it is a windows domain.Sorry, made a mistake, both IPs are on the 192.168 subnet, not .169...
- Mostafa Hamed almost 11 years
  
  can you connect to \\192.168.40.40\` without the c$` if so it might be an issue with your forest and not your network
- DextrousDave almost 11 years
  
  no, when i only enter the IP, I get a window that asks for: username and password, and it also specifies the domain I am on - domain1. How do i change it to domain2 for 192.168.40.40?
- Mostafa Hamed almost 11 years
  
  domain2\user_id as the user name. Also it would appear this has nothing to do with networking and just inter domain authentication
- DextrousDave almost 11 years
  
  when doing: \\192.168.40.40\domain2\user_id, it gives me a windows security window, but the domain on there is domain1, my current domain, and not domain2 - and I cannot change it
lxgr81 almost 11 years

Just a sample on how to use GPP to add a user to Local Administrator group rmlinar.net/blog/2012/06/01/…