"Edward Diener" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Kerry Brown wrote:
>>
>> "Edward Diener" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>> I have a network of two computers.
>>>
>>> ComputerA, running Windows XP 32-bit has a shared folder in read-only
>>> mode called SFiles with a sign-on of CAShare and a password of ZXJK1122.
>>>
>>> ComputerB, running Windows Vista 64, in the Network entry of Windows
>>> Explorer shows ComputerA. When I expand ComputerA I can see the SFiles
>>> shared folder undereath and when I try to click on the folder it asks me
>>> for a sign-on and password. I answer with CAShare and ZXJK1122, and it
>>> asks me if I want to save this information and I say yes. Subsequently,
>>> when I click on the SFiles shared folder it gives me read-only access to
>>> the files in the shared folder. This works excellently.
>>>
>>> Subsequently, on ComputerA, I decide to change the password for the
>>> sign-on of CAShare from ZXJK1122 to NPPP345T.
>>>
>>> Now on ComputerB when I try to click on the SFiles shared folder in
>>> Windows Explorer I get a message of:
>>>
>>> "Windows can not access \\ComputerA\SFiles with an error code of
>>> Ox80070005, Acces is denied."
>>>
>>> That's fair enough, since I changed the password for the sign-on. So I
>>> want Windows Explorer on ComputerB to ask me for a new password, and I
>>> will reply NPPP345T and now have read-only access again which is fine.
>>> But it does not do this but repeatedly denies me access each time I
>>> click on the shared folder. Surely there must be some way to tell Window
>>> Explorer to get a new password from me for this share. How do I do that
>>> ? It seems impossible that Vista will keep me from accessing shared
>>> folders of another computer on my network simply because it has decided
>>> that I can not change the signon/password to the other computer's
>>> shares.
>>
>> In a workgroup you have manage the user accounts and password on each
>> computer yourself. To get a single signon you need to manage the
>> computers with a central directory. Microsoft's solution to this is
>> called Active Directory which requires a Windows server be added to the
>> network.
>
> I am using a Workgroup.
>
> My point is that I can not seem to tell Windows Vista / Windows Explorer
> that since the password has changed on ComputerA, it needs on ComputerB to
> ask me again to supply the password in order to access ComputerA's shared
> folder.
>
> Surely this must be an extremely poor limitation of how Windows Vista and
> Network Discovery works and of Windows Vista networking in general works.
> It hardly seems believable that there is not a simple solution to this.
The simple solution is to change the password on ComputerB to match the
password on ComputerA. This really isn't a Vista or even a Windows
limitation. Pretty much all OS's work this way for peer to peer networking
(i.e. workgroup). Note that in Windows 7 what you want to do is possible
with the credential manager but it isn't automatic. I don't have a Vista
computer handy to see if it's possible in Vista. In Vista you can do it with
mapped drives. Delete the current mapped drive then remap it, ticking the
box that says something about using a different account to connect. You can
then specify the account name in the format ComputerB\UserName and supply
the password that ComputerB requires. Of course this will break if at some
future point in time the password is changed on ComputerB. As I said earlier
that's the nature of P2P networking.
--
Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/
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