networking and password questions

[none]

Was recently over to the house of an acquaintance. I tried connecting
our two computers via LAN (wire) to do some file transfers. When I tried
connecting to her PC (run, \\herpc) I received a 'network not found' or
something like that. When I attempted to connect her PC to mine (run,
\\hispc) a dialog box popped up wanting the user name and password.
Typed in my user name and password and voila, up came the shared
folders.

She has XP Home SP2, I have XP PRO SP1

Questions:
1. why did a username/password prompt popup when connecting her (XP2
Home) pc to mine (XP1 PRO)?

2. why did a username/password prompt NOT popup when trying to connect
my pc (XP1 PRO) to hers (XP2 Home)? only got error message, network not
found or something


For additional information; sadly, I know very little about networking,
but did set up her PC to have the same domain name as mine. Did not set
any numbers for addresses etc. because I know very little about that.
She uses Windows firewall, I do not.

Would really like my PC to prompt for username/password.
Any help appreciated!
Vic

 

[Malke]

Was recently over to the house of an acquaintance. I tried connecting
our two computers via LAN (wire) to do some file transfers. When I tried
connecting to her PC (run, \\herpc) I received a 'network not found' or
something like that. When I attempted to connect her PC to mine (run,
\\hispc) a dialog box popped up wanting the user name and password.
Typed in my user name and password and voila, up came the shared
folders.

She has XP Home SP2, I have XP PRO SP1

Questions:
1. why did a username/password prompt popup when connecting her (XP2
Home) pc to mine (XP1 PRO)?

Because your system didn't recognize the user who was requesting access
since a matching user account and password did not exist locally. So it
asked for credentials of an authorized user to be presented. You entered
your credentials, were recognized, and were therefore granted access.

2. why did a username/password prompt NOT popup when trying to connect
my pc (XP1 PRO) to hers (XP2 Home)? only got error message, network not
found or something

Because XP Home connects as Guest. Without knowing the exact error
message, I can't really address what happened but your friend may have
had the firewall configured to disallow LAN traffic.

For additional information; sadly, I know very little about networking,
but did set up her PC to have the same domain name as mine. Did not set
any numbers for addresses etc. because I know very little about that.
She uses Windows firewall, I do not.

Would really like my PC to prompt for username/password.
Any help appreciated!

Unless the files you want to transfer are very large, it would be easier
to simply use a USB thumbdrive or burn a CD-R. BTW, you really should
get SP2 on your machine in order to stay protected.


Malke

 

[none]

Hi Malke
You've helped me before, and helped again; thanks!
Vic
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[Malke]

Hi Malke
You've helped me before, and helped again; thanks!
Vic

You're always welcome, Vic. Thanks for the nice words. If you need more
help, please do post back.


Malke