Psexec: “unknown user name or bad password” in workgroup

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I have 2 machines with Windows XP SP2 Professional on the same workgroup;

I can ping each of them from the other one;

My psexec command(run from machine with ip: 192.168.0.3):

psexec \\192.168.0.4 -u Administrator -p adminPass ipconfig

return:

Couldn't access 192.168.0.4:
Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.

I disabled firewall on both machines, psexec can access the other machine very quickly but as I mentioned above every time it says "unknown user name or bad password.";

What is wrong with my psexec command?

Best Answer

try using a fully qualified username: psexec \192.168.0.4 -u {targetmachinename}\Administrator -p adminPass ipconfig

That'll tell the machine what context to use for that username. BTW, the "Administrator" account is enabled on that machine, right? Can you manually login using that account?

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