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When i use \computer\path in run box, folder opens directly without asking me which user I want to access the folder as...

have two computers A and B with administrators X and Y respectively, the shared folder exists on A and I have given X full permissions and Y has read only permissions on the shared folder. When I open this folder from computer Y's run dialog box it opens directly with read only permissions, how do I make it open as user X so that i have all permissions.

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  • I have used double slash but it's only showing one above...
    – Puff Lord
    Aug 31, 2017 at 8:12

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Let's make the assumption you wish to get to C:\temp of Alice's Computer and just to make things clear:

  • User A is alice
  • User B is john

If you're logged in as Alice, you've started the explorer process as the logged in user, so you'll have full permissions (as dictated by user X in your example).

Now, if user John wants to access \\share\path whilst logged in as another user, there are 2 simple methods to achieve this.

Using the Runas function

RUNAS [ [/noprofile | /profile] [/env] [/savecred | /netonly] ] /user: program

This can be translated to:

runas.exe /user:localdomain\john explorer.exe

This will run the process explorer as John, regardless as who is logged in (you could create a script in PowerShell to dictate this).

Mapped Drives

The next option is to simply attempt Accessing a Windows share with a different username

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  • Note you'd need to use the `runas.exe /user:domain\x explorer.exe C:` from the run folder, if that wasn't clear enough.
    – DankyNanky
    Aug 31, 2017 at 8:19

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