Is there a 'su'-like command in Win2K?

[Down8 0]

Quick scenario:

 

My whole family has logins on my machine, but my brother is the only who ever uses it. Now, he was logged in, surfing the web or something. I wanted to show him a video, or a picture or something, but he doesn't have permissions to get to my stuff.

 

It would suck to log-off the 'Net, log me in, change permissions, log him back in, log back onto the 'Net, just to show him a video. In *nix, there is the 'su' command [switch user], which will allow you to gain the permissions of another system user, which would have solved my problem.

 

Is there such a command in Windows?

 

Thanks in advance,

-bZj

[DosFreak 2]

Highlight an executable. Hold Down Shift. Right-click on executable. Choose Run As.

[DosFreak 2]

Highlight an executable. Hold Down Shift. Right-click on executable. Choose Run As.

[Ekstreme 0]

Down8, this doesn't give an answer to your question, it's only a tip if you don't know it already. If you are using a dialup device, you can logon a different user and not have to disconnect your net connection. To do this open regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon, right click and select New -> String Value. Name it 'KeepRasConnections' (minus the ' '), hit enter and give it the value 1.

reboot for it to take effect. Hope this helps out

[bug_666 0]

can't u just use the "Run as..." to launch whatever player u use with your l/p, browse into your folder(when u use RunAs, the program will have the permissions from our acct.), and open the file?

[bug_666 0]

Quote:

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Ekstreme:
Down8, this doesn't give an answer to your question, it's only a tip if you don't know it already. If you are using a dialup device, you can logon a different user and not have to disconnect your net connection. To do this open regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon, right click and select New -> String Value. Name it 'KeepRasConnections' (minus the ' '), hit enter and give it the value 1.
reboot for it to take effect. Hope this helps out </font>

yeah yeah yeah, but wouldn't logging off close the program that uses the connection?

[Down8 0]

Thanks for the help - I had heard of the 'Run as...' command before, but didn't know how to get there.

 

As for the dial-up connection, I'll give that a try, but as stated, logging-off will probably close the little program that keeps me on - gotta love free I'net service.

 

Thanks all,

-bZj