Connect to TFS with different user credentials

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I am connecting to TFS through Visual Studio 2008 Team Explorer. Lets say TFS is on machine A and Visual Studio 2008 is on machine B (my box). I have a local account on machine A (i.e. A\username) that has admin privileges for TFS (installed on machine A). Whenever I connect to TFS from team explorer it always uses the my domain credentials (companydomain\username) to connect to TFS. I want to be able to specify a different account (i.e. A\username) while connecting.

How can this be done? Thanks.

Also solutions similar to below do not work for me since there is no entry present in the "Manage password" dialog.

http://blogs.msdn.com/davidmcg/archive/2007/05/25/changing-team-foundation-server-credentials.aspx

Have you tried the runas command? microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/… — RichardOD
Yes. I tried runas. But since the account is not part of the domain it gives the message "unable to log on: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password" — stackoverflowuser
Have you tried manually adding an entry for TFS in Stored User Names and Passwords and specifying the credentials (A\username) there? — Helen
The runas command has a switch that allows for the behavior you're looking for - see my answer. — SqlRyan

SqlRyan SqlRyan · Accepted Answer · 2010-01-29T04:59:20

I think you're looking for the RUNAS command with the /NETONLY switch:

runas /netonly /user:domain\username program.exe

When you use the "/netonly" switch, you can log in using remote credentials on a domain that you're not even currently a member of, even if there's no trust set up. It just tells runas that the credentials will be used for accessing remote resources - I believe the application interacts with the local computer as the current user, and interacts with remote computers as the user you've given.

Connect to TFS with different user credentials

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