LAN connections

[Blair]

Hi All, great group. I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to make
it so whenever someone on another computer in my LAN connects to this
computer, which is running W2K, they don't have to enter a user name and
password. I've already uncheck the box in Users and Passwords in Control
Panel, which says Users must enter a password to use this computer but still
whenever someone on another computer tries connecting to this computer they
have to enter the user name and password. I must be missing something.
Thanks for any help. Blair

 

[Dave Patrick]

You'll want to create an account (in Users and Passwords) on the Windows
2000 machine with the username and password that you use to logon to the
other with. Then you'll need to share out the resource(s) with permissions
for those users. Also make sure they're all part of the same workgroup. Then
you'll no longer be prompted for the IPC$ password (Inter-process
communication)

In a peer level workgroup, when you try to access resources on a Windows
NT/2000/XP/2003 machine, Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 needs to authenticate the
user. If the user account doesn't exist in it's local account database, then
access will be denied.

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| Hi All, great group. I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to make
| it so whenever someone on another computer in my LAN connects to this
| computer, which is running W2K, they don't have to enter a user name and
| password. I've already uncheck the box in Users and Passwords in Control
| Panel, which says Users must enter a password to use this computer but
still
| whenever someone on another computer tries connecting to this computer
they
| have to enter the user name and password. I must be missing something.
| Thanks for any help. Blair
|
|

 

[Colon Terminus]

Hi All, great group. I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to make
it so whenever someone on another computer in my LAN connects to this
computer, which is running W2K, they don't have to enter a user name and
password. I've already uncheck the box in Users and Passwords in Control
Panel, which says Users must enter a password to use this computer but still
whenever someone on another computer tries connecting to this computer they
have to enter the user name and password. I must be missing something.
Thanks for any help. Blair

If that particular computer is NOT connected to the internet or the external
world, then simply enabling the "Guest" account on it will accomplish what
you wish. If it IS connected to the outside world, then you'll need to
create an account on the machine for every user who connects to it.