No matter what i try i cannot get the NET USE command to work! I am trying to connect from a Windows XP Home Laptop to a share on a Windows XP professional laptop. Both laptops are on the same network and i can successfully ping from on to the other. I am using the following command: net use \\computername\ipc$ password /user:computername\username This results in the following error: System error 1326 has occurred. Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. I know for a fact the neither the username or password are incorrect, yet i still cannot connect. I have disabled all firewalls and tried to connect with both the guest account and administrator accounts, but to no avail. I know that it is not a connectivity problem because every connection attempt generates a failed logon event in the event viewer of the XP Professional computer (These just reiterate the previous error). EVEN WORSE: I cannot even connect to the share on the XP professional laptop from that computer itself! Issuing the net use command above (using my currently logged on username and password) will give the same error. Only if i leave the username and password out of the command will it successfully connect. I am at the end of my rope, PLEASE HELP! -freddy

Did you Google? http://www.google.com/search?q=Syst... Life's more painless for the brainless.

i have visited almost every link to error 1326 on google, yet i cannot come up with a solution. -freddy

You are trying to use $IPC, why? J. j e r u v y a t y a h o o d o t c o m

Jeruvy, I was wondering the same thing. There's no point at all, except establishing a null session. Change the permissions on the share, in the MMC snap-in. Make sure to set the proper NTFS, and Share permissions. Also make sure that your connecting with credentials that are on the local machine or the computer your trying to connect to. "Computer security." — Oxymoron

Yep. I was wondering that too. Life's more painless for the brainless.