Network Neighborhood computer asking for username/password

[J. Bryan Wehrenberg]

One of the machines on my network always asks for a user name/password
whenever it is being accessed through network neighborhood by anyone but an
administrator. And unless you give an administrators username/password, you
cannot open it up to see the shares. The shares are EVERYONE read only
shares and anyone should be able to access them. All other machines on my
network (Windows 2003 Active Directory) don't have this issue. Do I have
some local policy set funkily?

-Bryan

 

[j.sestrich]

One of the machines on my network always asks for a user name/password
whenever it is being accessed through network neighborhood by anyone but an
administrator. And unless you give an administrators username/password, you
cannot open it up to see the shares. The shares are EVERYONE read only
shares and anyone should be able to access them. All other machines on my
network (Windows 2003 Active Directory) don't have this issue. Do I have
some local policy set funkily?

-Bryan

two things I can think of off the bat. Most obvious would be, what are
the NTFS permissions on the directory that is being shared? Share
permissions don't help if there is no NTFS access allowed by the user
in question.

Second, is the machine a current member of the same domain? If it
isn't, it won't use domain authentication, and only local users with an
account on that machine will be able to access. If you are accessing it
as "administrator" from PC A and PC B has an administrator account with
the same password, it'll work. Otherwise, it doesn't know who you are,
and asks for a name/password to authenticate with.

 

[J. Bryan Wehrenberg]

1. I never even get to the individual shares, I am asked for a
username/password after clicking on the machine itself in Network
Neighborhood so it's not even getting that far. I have double checked the
NTFS permissions and they are compatible with the share permissions.
2. Yes, these machines are all part of the same domain.

 

[Guest]

That happens to me too. I'm trying to access a neighbour computer in the same
network domain and although no security, nor firewalls, neither even
passwords are set, it asks for a password, anyway. As there are no passwords,
I can't access it.
Any help is mostly wellcome.

Thanks in advance,
Charley.