Hi, thanks for your time. I'm having the next issue: I work on a domain network. Usually, we image computers and then join them to a domain. However, i find it impossible to do anything to an unjoined computer because i get system error 86. Im trying to map c$ from my computer (which is in a domain) with the local administrator credentials from the other computer. The command goes like this: net use k: \\ipaddress\c$ password /u:localadmin output: System error 86 has occurred. The specified network password is not correct I have checked many times the local administrator password and im typing it right, i have disabled the firewall, i have run all the services on the computer, and enabled netbios. Nothing works. The problem is not exactly trying to map c$, i have noticed that once i'm able to map this drive, i can also connect to WMI on this machine from a remote computer. The objective of this is that i'm trying to run a couple of powershell scrits that involve getting a wmi-object from a remote computer (this doesnt work either because i get ACCESS_DENIED using local admin credentials from the machine im trying to access.). Im doing this from a Win7 machine to a XP machine. I've tried XP to XP but it doesnt work either.gustavo morales IT department - Desktop Support

Hi, Can you access the default shared folder via explorer? Also, you may specify the computer name as the domain name for a test. Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

I am not able to connect either. I've tried specifying the domain of the computer in two ways: 192.168.1.1\username computername\username it doesnt work either. I still get system error 86. However as soon as the computers join the domain everything works like magic. Im assuming there is a certaing group policy that activates a service but im not sure which ( i cant view gpos ). I've tried using a wrong username on purpose and i do get a different error: "username or password not correct" but if i use the correct credentials i get "network password is not correct".gustavo morales IT department - Desktop Support

Hi all ! Just had the same problem, and ended here... Read the thread and figured out that the systemtime and date at my server was totally wrong... Fixed the time/date problem and now it works.... connects without the error 86 . Thanks.. no change to NTLM ! Running Windows 7 64 bit and Server 2003 R2