Malke said:
It is most unlikely that people will go looking for your previous post.
Repost your question, including enough information so that people who
want to help you can do so. Please understand that this is not
Microsoft tech support. People who answer questions are all volunteers.
If you didn't get an answer previously, it could have been one of many
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Malke
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Hi, Malke,
Thanks for replying. Yes, I am aware that the news group is voluntary.
Here's the text of my previous post and replies:
Thanks, Steve. Unfortunately that didn't work for me. There are no firewalls
on the client computers, and I have disabled the Windows XP firewall. I will
try to give you a full account of my efforts, but cannot do that today. I'll
post again as soon as I can.
Thanks.
tinaeva
:
OK, things I've tried: The things you've mentioned - unsharing and resharing
all the drives & folders on my server; the net user guest /active:yes and
control userpasswords2. (The password box was empty and I clicked OK.) I
checked both clients for firewalls & made sure the server's was off.
The message I get when I click on my server's icon from either client is:
"You must supply a password to make this connection.
Resource \Kristina\IPC$
Password _____________
x Save this password in your password list."
If I click OK I get the message that the password is not recognized. I have
to click cancel to get rid of the password request.
I have gone into my user accounts and given full control to the guest
account. The other accounts are Owner and Administrator, both of which are
Administrator type accounts.
I've tried starting my computer in safe mode with networking to turn off
"simple file sharing" (although I couldn't find that option under folder
options) and reshared the C drive on my server (Kristina).
I tried this from a post:
"With Simple File Sharing disabled, right click "C:\Program Files" in Windows
Explorer, click Sharing and Security, and share the folder. Then, click the
Permissions button to specify network access permissions, and click the
Security tab to specify NTFS file system permissions. A network user needs
both permissions in order to access the share."
The problem with the above instruction was that there were so many different
places to set permissions that I was confused. I set all of them for full
control, but frankly, didn't know what I was doing.
I did go to the website suggested. It was only about XP Pro, but I tried the
instructions for permitting network access w/o a password. Under
Administrative Tools there is no Local Security Policy, but I went into
Computer Management, then Shares. In my list of Shared Folders I found this
"IPC$" with no path. My server C drive is also on the list as Presario (C)
with the path C:\
The website also describes going into Computer Management and says you can
fine tune user accounts but says nothing about Shares.
NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled. My workgroup is the same for all 3 computers.
I don't know if any of this is helpful, but that's everything I've done.
Thanks.
tinaeva
