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I've met a rather annoying problem that should be very simple, but I can't seem to figure it out. I have a work laptop that is part of a domain, so my username is foobar\bob. I also have my home computer with no domain, just the username bob. I'm trying to connect to a share on my home computer from my work computer. It's asking me for my username and password, which is bob, but when I type in bob it assumes I mean foobar\bob, which of course doesn't work. I've tried to use hostname\bob, but that doesn't seem to work either...

What can I do here?

Both computers are running Windows 7.

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Do the "Bobs" have different passwords, or is it the same? – Tobias Plutat Jan 22 '11 at 12:39
Does Win7 (on the remote PC) allow you to enable account logon auditing in secpol.msc? It might make things a little clearer. (Audit events go to Security log in eventvwr.msc.) – grawity Jan 22 '11 at 14:45
It defaults to domain\bob but can you take out the domain part and try again? I connect from a domain computer to a non-domain computer regularly and this hasn't been an issue for me -- but I don't have Windows 7 so it's not exactly apples to apples. – emgee Apr 7 '11 at 10:37
Have you checked the permissions on both the share and the folder itself? – VolrathTheFallen Apr 7 '11 at 10:57
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I had the same problem. I was able to get around this by using the net use command. So basically, I just ran:

net use \\server\share password /USER:username

and then I browsed 

\\server\share

and it worked. username was just the username (no domain part or workgroup needed)

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Smart. Will have to try that out the next time I need it :) – Svish May 29 '11 at 20:51
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hostname\bob should work. Try localhost\bob, it just might work..?

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For some reason it doesn't. In my head hostname\bob should work too, but yeah... doesn't look like it does. – Svish Jan 22 '11 at 21:22
Crazy. I don't know anything else now. Sorry. – sinni800 Jan 24 '11 at 11:51
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