login problem..

[Paul H]

I have a few computers in my home network (all Ethernet, not wireless). I
can't log onto my wife's Vista Home Premium (named tonis-acer) from my Vista
Home Premium (PaulsAcerLaptop), another Home Premium laptop, my Windows 7
beta laptop, or an XP Pro laptop.

I login in as:
User name: Toni
password: abc1234 (not really)

response:
User name: PaulsAcerLaptop\toni
password: unchanged
small window: "Logon unsuccessful", etc.

Other computers don't have this problem. What's going on? Help, anyone.
TIA, Paul

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Vista Home Premium doesn't support remote logons (aka remote desktop). You
can file share from it (settings are found in the network and sharing
center), but you wouldn't be able to log onto that machine remotely without
the use of a third party program.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Paul H]

I can log onto my Vista Home Premium "ACER-4730Z", and my Windows 7 beta
'PAULS-W7" - any of my 5 networked computers, a mix of XP Pro, Vista, and
Windows 7 computers, all with current updates. I do not have any third
party program. After I log onto any computer on my network, since I turn on
full sharing on all of my hard drives, any computer can use Windows explorer
to look at and/or change files on any other computer. When I click on the
computer name, Windows explorer asks me to log on, as I displayed below. I
can also specify a printer on any remote computer as my default printer. I
need additional help. Thanks, Paul

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Paul,

Was it working previously? Were any changes or updates applied to this
machine?
Have you checked settings, as I indicated, in the network and sharing
center?

Logging on to a machine and accessing shares are two different things
entirely. If you are prompted for a logon when accessing shares on a
machine, it just wants valid credentials to access shares as defined under
network sharing.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Paul H]

Hi Rick,
I think this laptop always had this problem. I can log from it to my other
laptops, so I always have to do it that direction if I want to move data
(pictures from the digital camera, etc.). It only has this "toni" to
"PaulsAcerLaptop\toni" symptom when trying from any of my other computers.
It must be some security setting on the "tonis-acer" laptop. But what
setting?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Paul,

Have you tried disabling password protect sharing in the network and sharing
center?

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I have a few computers in my home network (all Ethernet, not wireless). I
can't log onto my wife's Vista Home Premium (named tonis-acer) from my Vista
Home Premium (PaulsAcerLaptop), another Home Premium laptop, my Windows 7
beta laptop, or an XP Pro laptop.

I login in as:
User name: Toni
password: abc1234 (not really)

response:
User name: PaulsAcerLaptop\toni
password: unchanged
small window: "Logon unsuccessful", etc.

Other computers don't have this problem. What's going on? Help, anyone.
TIA, Paul

Perhaps you could set up a dummy (no offense ) account on your
computer with Toni's account name and password as it exists on her
computer.

I say that because it used to be necessary, i.e. in earlier versions of
Windows. Well, I'm really misspeaking. What is needed is an account on
each computer with the same name and password, and typically it would
be an otherwise unused account on each computer.

If I am wrong here, let's hope the more knowledgeable people on this NG
will correct me...

BTW, from your description, you are *not* logging on to her computer,
but merely gaining access to shares on her computer.

 

[Paul H]

Thank you both. Neither idea worked. And yes, even tho the text says "user
name" and "password", I understand that it only allows me to have access to
those items on her computer that she wishes to share. Thanks, Paul