Re: I'm halfway there

Pegasus (MVP) wrote:



3. On the desktop: Create accounts AAAA BBBB.
- Open a Command Prompt.
- Type these commands:
net user AAAA xxxyyy /add
net user BBBB xxxyyy /add
- Close the Command Prompt.

You now have synchronised accounts on your desktop PC.

These are an administrator's shortcuts to create accounts and
set passwords. There are, of course, GUI methods to achieve
the same. Click Start / Help on each machine and type in
the appropriate terms (account, password) to find out how
it's done.

Pegasus,

Your procedure worked perfectly on Laptop 1, an Acer. When I tried it on
Laptop 2, a Toshiba, the net command resulted in the following:
The syntax of this command is:

I then tried:
net user %UserName% toshiba /add
Again, the same "syntax of the command" response.


You cannot have user names surrounded by % characters.
This command would work:

net user Ray toshiba /add


Finally I tried:
net user %UserName% <toshiba> /add
The response was "Access is denied."


You cannot have passwords surrounded by arrow heads.


So now I'm stuck.

Additional questions:

1. How do I change the username on the Toshiba (DJ Ray)to match that on
the Acer (Ray), assuming it's okay on a wireless network to have them
match? I tried changing it through Control Panel/User accounts/Change
the way users log on or off. That changed the name from DJ Ray to simply
Ray, but when I issue the command set username, the old DJ Ray still
appears on the Toshiba.


You would have to do this:
1. Create an account for Ray.
2. Log on under Ray..
3. Reboot, then log on as administrator.
4. Copy the "DJ Ray" profile to the "Ray" profile via the Control Panel /
System / User Profiles.
When you now log on as "Ray" then you will get much the same
environment as under "DJ Ray".


2. Can both laptops have the same username and password? At my desktop,
if I double-click on My Network Places and then on Computers Near Me,
all three computers have unique names, with the laptops showing the full
model numbers. So even if the usernames and passwords are the same, the
desktop still has a way of distinguishing them.


This is the normal way:
- Identify each machine with an meaningful name. Don't bother with
model numbers etc - they are hard to remember.
- Create and use the same account names/passwords
on each machine.


Thanks for your help and patience.


You're welcome.


Everything is now okay with the Acer. I can swap files all ways from either the desktop or the Acer.

At the desktop, when I tried net user Ray toshiba /add, I got a message that an account with that name already exists, try a different user name. Without trying a different user name, I returned to the Toshiba and tried connecting to the desktop. Again, I'm prompted for a username and password, and I don't know what to enter.

If at the desktop I type net user, I get three columns.
1. Administrator (the only entry being Ray)
2. Any Body (no entries)
3. Guest (no entries)

Part of the problem may be that originally my Toshiba username was DJ Ray; note the space between the J and R. If I try the following command, I get the syntax error message:

net set DJ Ray toshiba /add

probably because toshiba looks like an extra parameter.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Ray


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