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The final step to getting my wireless home network to
share files was to logon to each machine with the
Administrator account. My problem is that on my w2k
machine I've been using a different account for ~3 years
and everything is all setup. When I logon as
Administrator I don't have the settings, etc. Is there a
way I can easily make Administrator act like my other
account?
 
You don't have to log on as administrator. My guess is that the
instructions you're reading say that because it's simpler than explaining
why that'd work. When you're in a workgroup (as opposed to a domain), in
order for permission to be granted for file sharing, the user connecting to
the remote computer needs to authenticate against that remote computer.
This can be done by having the same username and password on the computer
you're on as is also setup as an account on the remote machine. So, if you
have two computers, both of them have an "administrator" user account. If
both of their passwords are the same, you will be able to access the
machines over the network from each other while logged on as administrator.
But, if you log on as James, and your password is k38hjf, you can setup an
account on the other machine with that same name and password. Then just
make sure that account has the necessary NTFS and share permissions to your
shares.

Ray at home
 
Thanks, Ray at Home.

I believe that your method is what is allowing me to
access my 98se machine from my w2k machine. However, to
access my xp machine from w2k I get a logon prompt and can
then enter Administrator and password.

In any case, after fixing other problems, the business of
accounts has become much clearer to me. You don't have to
logon to the same account on all machines. But you do
have to have the same account and password on all
machines. So I have an Administrator account on each and
I logon to it on xp and 98 but I logon to my original
account on w2k. This works now and I only have prompt on
2k to xp access.

I have the strong suspicion that I must logon to 98se as
Administrator to be able to access the other two
machines. But it was easy to switch to Admin logon on
98se since it supports makeing a new account match an old
account much easier than on 2k or xp.

Jim Slager
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You don't have to log on as administrator. My guess is that the
instructions you're reading say that because it's simpler than explaining
why that'd work. When you're in a workgroup (as opposed to a domain), in
order for permission to be granted for file sharing, the user connecting to
the remote computer needs to authenticate against that
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Thanks, Ray at Home.

I believe that your method is what is allowing me to
access my 98se machine from my w2k machine. However, to
access my xp machine from w2k I get a logon prompt and can
then enter Administrator and password.

In any case, after fixing other problems, the business of
accounts has become much clearer to me. You don't have to
logon to the same account on all machines. But you do
have to have the same account and password on all
machines. So I have an Administrator account on each and
I logon to it on xp and 98 but I logon to my original
account on w2k. This works now and I only have prompt on
2k to xp access.

I have the strong suspicion that I must logon to 98se as
Administrator to be able to access the other two
machines. But it was easy to switch to Admin logon on
98se since it supports makeing a new account match an old
account much easier than on 2k or xp.remote computer.
 
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