Network passwords

[owkmann]

Hey,

I just got a laptop with Win2000 on it, for use at home. My home network has
several WinXP machines, a Win98SE machine and a Linux box. When trying to
access a shared folder on the laptop via a different machine on the network,
I get a User name and Password prompt. Is there a way to shut this off on
the laptop? I'm really not worried about security or sharing Temp folders
openly on my network.

Thanks for your help,

owkmann

 

[Dave Patrick]

You'll want to create an account (in Users and Passwords) on the Windows
2000 machine with the username and password that you use to logon to the
other with. Then you'll need to share out the resource(s) with permissions
for those users. Also make sure they're all part of the same workgroup and
on the same subnet. Then you'll no longer be prompted for the IPC$ password
(Inter-process communication)

In a peer level workgroup, when you try to access resources on a Windows
NT/2000/XP/2003 machine, Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 needs to authenticate the
user. If the user account doesn't exist in it's local account database, then
access will be denied.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Hey,
|
| I just got a laptop with Win2000 on it, for use at home. My home network
has
| several WinXP machines, a Win98SE machine and a Linux box. When trying to
| access a shared folder on the laptop via a different machine on the
network,
| I get a User name and Password prompt. Is there a way to shut this off on
| the laptop? I'm really not worried about security or sharing Temp folders
| openly on my network.
|
| Thanks for your help,
|
| owkmann
|
|

 

[owkmann]

You'll want to create an account (in Users and Passwords) on the Windows
2000 machine with the username and password that you use to logon to the
other with. Then you'll need to share out the resource(s) with permissions
for those users. Also make sure they're all part of the same workgroup and
on the same subnet. Then you'll no longer be prompted for the IPC$
password
(Inter-process communication)

In a peer level workgroup, when you try to access resources on a Windows
NT/2000/XP/2003 machine, Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 needs to authenticate the
user. If the user account doesn't exist in it's local account database,
then
access will be denied.

Thanks Dave. I don't recall having to set up users/passwords for our Win XP
machines when accessing them from other machines on the network. Does XP
somehow "gather" names for its local database from other machines on the
network? How does XP allow access without authentication? BTW, I have logons
"turned off" (however that works, I don't know) for all our Windows 98/XP
machines.

Owkmann

 

[Dave Patrick]

You probably have XP set to autologon. Win9x has no per-user access control.
From a command prompt;
echo %username%
to find out what user you're logging on with.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Thanks Dave. I don't recall having to set up users/passwords for our Win
XP
| machines when accessing them from other machines on the network. Does XP
| somehow "gather" names for its local database from other machines on the
| network? How does XP allow access without authentication? BTW, I have
logons
| "turned off" (however that works, I don't know) for all our Windows 98/XP
| machines.
|
| Owkmann
|
|

 

[owkmann]

You probably have XP set to autologon. Win9x has no per-user access
control.
From a command prompt;
echo %username%
to find out what user you're logging on with.

Dave,

I didn't add user names to my WinXP machines. How does XP authenticate users
seeking access to these machines through my network?

 

[Dave Patrick]

Start|Run|control userpasswords2
to see a list of the existing user accounts.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Dave,
|
| I didn't add user names to my WinXP machines. How does XP authenticate
users
| seeking access to these machines through my network?
|
|