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Windows Forum / Windows Me / Networking / April 2005Prompted for a network password when access XP from ME
I have an XP and ME machine on a network in the same workgroup. I can see the connections from both machines. I can also access the ME shared folders from XP, but when I try to access the XP shared folders from ME it prompts me for a network password. I have not been able to figure out what password it is asking for. I've disabled the logon password on the XP machine and I tried entering the XP admin/network password and nothing works.???? >I have an XP and ME machine on a network in the same >workgroup. I can see the connections from both machines. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >logon password on the XP machine and I tried entering the >XP admin/network password and nothing works.???? Run the Network Setup Wizard on XP. Don't run the Wizard on ME, even if it tells you to. Make sure that the Guest account is enabled for network access on XP by typing this line in the Start | Run box: net user guest /active:yes Remove any network password from the Guest account on XP: 1. Click Start | Run. 2. Type "control userpasswords2" in the box and click OK: 3. Click Guest. 4. Click Reset Password. 5. Click OK without entering a new password. If the XP computer has XP Professional and you've explicitly disabled simple file sharing, create matching user accounts -- with the same user name and non-blank password -- on both computers.  SignatureBest Wishes, Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking) Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups. Microsoft Most Valuable Professional - Windows Networking http://mvp.support.microsoft.com Steve Winograd's Networking FAQ http://www.bcmaven.com/networking/faq.htm I have a similar situation. 3 machines share a DSL router. The 2 XP machines log onto a domain. My ME machine is in a workgroup. The 2 XP machines share all discs. My laser printer is connected to the ME machine's parallel port. My color printer is connected to XP1's parallel port. The 2 XP machines can access each other's hard drives and both printers all well as all drives on the ME machine. When I try to access the color printer or either XP machine from the ME, I get asked for a password. Nothing works. Passwords have been reset as described below. Firewalls have been turned off. All printers and drives are shared. All I want to print to the color printer from the ME machine???? In article <115c01c541c2$79579150$a401280a@phx.gbl>, "Tmoore" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >I have an XP and ME machine on a network in the same >workgroup. I can see the connections from both machines. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >logon password on the XP machine and I tried entering the >XP admin/network password and nothing works.???? Run the Network Setup Wizard on XP. Don't run the Wizard on ME, even if it tells you to. Make sure that the Guest account is enabled for network access on XP by typing this line in the Start | Run box: net user guest /active:yes Remove any network password from the Guest account on XP: 1. Click Start | Run. 2. Type "control userpasswords2" in the box and click OK: 3. Click Guest. 4. Click Reset Password. 5. Click OK without entering a new password. If the XP computer has XP Professional and you've explicitly disabled simple file sharing, create matching user accounts -- with the same user name and non-blank password -- on both computers. SignatureBest Wishes, Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking) Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups. Microsoft Most Valuable Professional - Windows Networking http://mvp.support.microsoft.com Steve Winograd's Networking FAQ http://www.bcmaven.com/networking/faq.htm >I have an XP and ME machine on a network in the same >workgroup. I can see the connections from both machines. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >logon password on the XP machine and I tried entering the >XP admin/network password and nothing works.???? Make your administrator password on both XP and ME the same or create the same user on both machines with the same password. SignaturePosted using the http://www.windowsforumz.com interface, at author's request Articles individually checked for conformance to usenet standards Topic URL: http://www.windowsforumz.com/Networking-Prompted-network-password-access-XP-ftop ict358646.html Visit Topic URL to contact author (reg. req'd). Report abuse: http://www.windowsforumz.com/eform.php?p=1140152 |
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