Get rid of LAN password

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I've a Toshiba Satellite A45-S120 laptop in a wireless Lan with a Dell desktop.

No problem accessing the Dell Desktop from the Toshiba Laptop. However, if
I attempt to access the laptop from the desktop, I'm met with a screen that
requests my password. How can I get rid of this request?

Many thanks.
 
Create a duplicate username and password on both computers. Use this user on
both computers. I'm assuming the laptop has XP Pro and the desktop has XP
Home?
 
Kerry,

Both computers have XP home. I'm not greeted with a user name or password
request on either machine when I start up (probably got rid of them earlier
as I'm the only user of both machines). So are you saying I need to start
signing in again - this time with a new user name and password on each
machine?
 
Bob Strobach said:
I've a Toshiba Satellite A45-S120 laptop in a wireless Lan with a Dell desktop.

No problem accessing the Dell Desktop from the Toshiba Laptop. However, if
I attempt to access the laptop from the desktop, I'm met with a screen that
requests my password. How can I get rid of this request?
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Hi Bob,
On the LAN Connection Incon Right click on it and select Properties and Go
to Access Control and see if shares is enabled and if you have the shares on
this computer/Laptop with password and user name.
Be sure your Windows Firewall is not blocking the LAN on the Laptop from
accessing the Desktop, or if you have a third party Firewall allow access to
the LAN.
Hope this helps
Regards
nass
 
If they are both Home then it may a firewall problem. Have you run the
networking wizard on both computers?
 
I haven't run the wizards but I will.

Thanks

Kerry Brown said:
If they are both Home then it may a firewall problem. Have you run the
networking wizard on both computers?
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(e-mail address removed),
Bob Strobach said:
I've a Toshiba Satellite A45-S120 laptop in a wireless Lan
with a Dell desktop.

No problem accessing the Dell Desktop from the Toshiba
Laptop. However, if
I attempt to access the laptop from the desktop, I'm met
with a screen that requests my password. How can I get rid
of this request?

Many thanks.
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Is it asking for a password for your account or for the Guest
account? If it's the Guest account, do the following:

Go to Start -> Run and enter cmd.exe in the Open box.
At the command prompt enter the following command,

net user guest

Hit Enter.
You should see Yes next to Account Active.
If it says no, enter the following command at the prompt,

net user guest /active:yes

Hit Enter.
Test to see if you can now access shared resources on the
laptop.

For more info on this subject:
How to troubleshoot home networking in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308007

Good luck

Nepatsfan
 
Nepatsfan said:
(e-mail address removed),


Is it asking for a password for your account or for the Guest
account? If it's the Guest account, do the following:

Go to Start -> Run and enter cmd.exe in the Open box.
At the command prompt enter the following command,

net user guest

Hit Enter.
You should see Yes next to Account Active.
If it says no, enter the following command at the prompt,

net user guest /active:yes

Hit Enter.
Test to see if you can now access shared resources on the
laptop.

For more info on this subject:
How to troubleshoot home networking in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308007

Good luck

Nepatsfan
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Nepatsfan,

It was asking for the guest account which was inactive and iis now active.
The shortcut I've successfully used in the past to reach my laptop from my
desktop is: \\toshiba\c
Recently that's resulted in the request for a password for the guest
account. But now that the guest account is active I no longer get the
password request but I get a "Problem with Shortcut" message that "The drive
or network connection that the shortcut 'Toshiba C Drive.lnk' refers to in
unavailable...
I need to know what steps I can take to "make it available".

Again, thanks for your patience

Bob Strobach
 
(e-mail address removed),
Bob Strobach said:
Nepatsfan,

It was asking for the guest account which was inactive and
iis now active. The shortcut I've successfully used in the
past to reach my laptop from my desktop is: \\toshiba\c
Recently that's resulted in the request for a password for
the guest account. But now that the guest account is active
I no longer get the password request but I get a "Problem
with Shortcut" message that "The drive or network connection
that the shortcut 'Toshiba C Drive.lnk' refers to in
unavailable...
I need to know what steps I can take to "make it available".

Again, thanks for your patience

Bob Strobach
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On the desktop PC, what happens when you go to Start -> Run and
enter \\toshiba in the Open box? What error message is
displayed?

On the desktop PC, do any folders on the Toshiba show up in My
Network Places? What happens when you try to open them?

If you receive an error message when trying the above
procedures then I'll echo the advice that you've already
received from Kerry Brown and nass. It sounds like your
firewall program is blocking access. You might want to
uninstall Zone Alarm and enable File and Print sharing on the
Windows XP firewall to see if this solves your problem.

If none of these suggestions are helpful, you might want to
post your question to the Windows XP networking newsgroup:

Discussions in Windows XP Networking and the Web
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...ft.public.windowsxp.network_web&lang=en&cr=US

Good luck

Nepatsfan
 
Hi Bob,


Try:
\\toshiba\c$
As the C:\ drive is not shared as default, you should use your
administrative share which ends with the $ sign.
Otherwise, check if your Toshiba also has the computername toshiba. To do
so, rightclick My Computer, select properties, select Computer Name.

Goog luck
 
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