Not used dos commands in a little while and im a bit rusty. Trying to copy a directory from one computer to another over network using this command. xcopy "c:\example\*.*" \\computer_name\"c$\example directory\example directory" /e /y Due to restrictions can't just share a folder on the computer. The above command works locally but as soon as I try to do it across the network it falls over and say invalid drive specification. I think it may be a permissions issue but not to sure. Can you specify a username/password in that command? If so, how? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

1] I don't have a net so I'm not familiar with th \\. But if you map the drive you can: xcopy "c:\stuff" "n:\mystuff\" Notice that *.* is superfluous because the default is ALL [*.*]. And notice that if you include the trailing backslash on the destination you can avoid the stupid "file or directory" question. HTH If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

The problem, I think, is that you are not correctly labelling the destination drive on the other PC. The format I use for this is; c:\windows\system32\xcopy c:\data\*.* \\Other_PC\Drive_Name\data /s/e/d/y I put the switches on the end so that it only copies files that have a later date than on the destination drive. the Drive_Name is whatever the destination drive is LABELLED. Hope this helps