Run as another user for network communications

There may be times you need to run an application on your machine as your local user account however for its network communications it needs to run as another user.

John Savill

April 6, 2015

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Run as another user for network communications

Q. Can I run an application locally as myself but its network communications run as another user?

A. There may be times you need to run an application on your machine as your local user account however for its network communications it needs to run as another user, typically a different domain user. This is easily accomplished using the runas /netonly combination.

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