PsExec: The user name or password is incorrect
I know there are similar questions to this. But none of them resolved my problem and asking it as a new question.
I tried psexec to remotely execute the following example code.
psexec \\192.168.1.70 -u PcName\RemoteUserName -p RemotePassword ipconfig
I checked the PcName and RemoteUserName very carefully in the target machine, and they are correct. My client uses "Windows 10 Enterprise", and target uses "Windows 8.1 Enterprise".
I have done the following things so far,
- Copied PsExec v2.11 in "C:\Windows\System32" both client and target machines,
- Ran
"reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\system /v LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f"in elevated command prompt in target machine, - Firewall is switched off in both machines,
- No any connections between two machines except VNC viewer (tried psexec without VNC viewer as well).
But, I still get the following error. What am I doing wrong.
Couldn't access 192.168.1.70:
The user name or password is incorrect.
Solution 1:
After trying hours, I found a mistake.
I changed the target machine's (Windows 8.1) username in 'Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\User Accounts\Change Your Name'. But it has not changed the username associated with the command prompt.
Once I used the original user name which was shown in the command prompt as the RemoteUserName in PsExec command the problem resolved.