Opening a remote machine s Windows C drive

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I m trying to locally mount a machine s C drive that is on my LAN   I need to able to browse the contents of the other machine when tracing through code   I once saw a sys admin do some crazy windows incantation from the cmd prompt   Something like  remote machine local access C  Is anyone familiar with how this is done

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By default  Windows makes the root of each drive available  provided you ve got Administrator privileges  as  e g     server c   These are known as Administrative Shares

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If you need a drive letter  some applications don t like UNC style paths that start with a machine-name  you can  map a drive  to a UNC path  Right-click on  My Computer  and select Map Network Drive    or use this command line   NET USE z   server c  folder1 folder2  NET USE y   server d   Note that you can map drive-to-drive or drill down and map to sub-folder

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If it s not the Home edition of XP  you can use   servername c   Mark Brackett s comment      Note that you need to be an   Administrator on the local machine  as   the share permissions are locked down

[windows] Opening a remote machine's Windows C drive

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