Mapped drive on P-P network

[Guest]

I have an XP Home machine on a peer-to-peer network that's predominantly
Win98SE machines. When I map a folder that has no password, there's no
problem. Now that I'm trying to map a drive with a password, it just hangs at
the password screen as if I had never hit the "OK" button. The same thing
happens when I'm just trying to open the folder. Any clues?

 

[Ron Lowe]

I have an XP Home machine on a peer-to-peer network that's predominantly
Win98SE machines. When I map a folder that has no password, there's no
problem. Now that I'm trying to map a drive with a password, it just hangs
at
the password screen as if I had never hit the "OK" button. The same thing
happens when I'm just trying to open the folder. Any clues?

This usually happens because the computer sharing out the
passworded share has a space in it's name.
The space may not be obvious: it may be at the beginning, or at the end.

Either remove the password, or re-name the offending machine.
Re-name it using a simple name with no spaces or other wierd characters.
Use only A-Z, a-z, 0-9, dash (-) , underscore ( _ ).