Problem accessing a network share from WinXP Home clients...

[Peter Packett]

Hello, NG!

I've been having trouble connecting to network shares from a WinXP Home
client.
On the same Lan I have a server and two different WinXP Home clients: one
works fine,
the other does not.
When I try to connect to the share from the faulty WinXP, a dialog box pops
up
asking for Guest password to access the resource even if the
username/password
of the profile I'm using matches the username/password configured on the
server
to grant access to the resource. No guest account is allowed on the server.
I tried disabling the ForceGuest registry key from 1 to 0 but nothing
changed.
I also tried to change the security setting "how network logons using local
accounts are authenticated"
from "Guest only: Local users authenticate as Guest" to "Classic: Local
users authenticate as themselves"
but failed because WinXP _HOME_ does not have any of that.
I'm in a dire strait... can someone help?

Thanks in advance.
Peter Packett

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

One solution is to create an identical ID/Pass on the other Home machine.
The other involves adding your Home user from one machine specifically to
the Permissions of the share on the other home machine. (Must boot to Safe
Mode, as default "Administrator" account to set the 'security tab' of the
target share folder. Use the Permissions button then available to "find
names")