Bob said:
I have 3 computers (A,B,C) on network and I have all C drives mapped &
shared between all of them. When I boot computer B,it prompts for logon
when first connecting to a mapped drive on A. When I boot computer C, it
does not prompt for logon to A. How do I control this (I do not want the
logon). I don't know why computers A and C behave dofferently. I have all
set to auto reconnect to shared drives.
What operating systems are all three computers running? If XP Pro, check the
Simple Sharing setting in Folder Options>View and make sure they are
identical on all three boxen. Here's an explanation:
If one or more of the computers is XP Pro:
a. If you need Pro's ability to set fine-grained permissions, turn off
Simple File Sharing (Folder Options>View tab) and create identical user
accounts/passwords on all computers.
b. If you don't care about using Pro's advanced features, leave the Simple
File Sharing enabled.
Simple File Sharing means that Guest (network) is enabled. This means that
anyone without a user account on the target system can use its resources.
This is a security hole but only you can decide if it matters in your
situation.
As for only having one account and that being the built-in Administrator
(which leads me to believe you have XP Pro), that is very bad practice. If
that account becomes corrupted or has a problem, you are SOL. Create at
least one other user account with administrative privileges on each machine
as an emergency backup. If you're lucky, you won't even ever have to log
onto it.
There are very sound security reasons for not running day-to-day in an
account with administrative privileges, so consider creating a third
account that is only user-level and using that instead.
Malke
