I was wondering how to netpath. I need it to remote shutdown my sisters comp, and it says I need a network path. I was curious if there is a way to make one. Any help is accepted.You... want to remotely SHUT down her comp? Just out of sheer morbid curiosity - why would you want to do this?A network path takes on the format of:

\\computername\sharename\...

The computername is whatever was defined during the OS install.

The share NAME can either be set up by the user (recommended) or you can use the administrative shares (C$, D$, etc)

UNLESS you and your sister are members of a domain, you cannot run jobs on a remote computer.

8-)What if she runs a LAN off the router in my room? Can I still make a path through the router?I would think the point of the router would be to network a bunch of computers. By defining shares on each computer, you can access those shared drives, folders, files by building a connection (net use).

For instance, if drive D is shared on a remote computer, you can build the connection to be say, drive X on your computer. You now have access to all the file and folders on drive D from the remote machine only you use drive X in accessing them. It get more COMPLICATED than this of course. Microsoft uses a simple file sharing MECHANISM which allows such sharing. To actually run jobs on a remote computer, one computer in the network needs to run Server software.

Happy Computing. 8-)