SUICIDES AN OPTION !!!!

[eagleguy]

Have Windows Xp & just p/up 2nd computer with Windows
2000. Networked together and sharing folder from Widows XP
works on the Win2k if I am logged in as "Power User". When
I log on as "Kids" (given regular "User" login) and I try
to log on to network computer with shared file I get a
request to enter password. When I enter "Kids" and "Kids"
(Logon & Password), I get a message saying "Logon
Failure: Unknown User Name or Bad Password".

PLease, Please HELP: I am going nuts trying everything!

 

[Danny Sanders]

On the Windows XP computer set up a user named Kids with the password Kids.
Grant this user permission to the shared folder.

hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

 

[eagleguy]

Yikes!! I have them all set up as individuals on that
computer! With 5 kids and a wife (6 users) - are you
saying that I should load each user on the 2k machine
seperately also? I was using this machine to run programs
and have them put all their documents on the XP machine
which has the room for storage. Kind of a B/up computer
they all wouldn't have their "own" areas on.

 

[Danny Sanders]

In order to grant a user permission to a file in Win 2k or XP in a peer to
peer setup like you have each user that needs access must have an account on
the computer doing the sharing.
You could enable and grant the guest account access, the user would not have
to be set up on the computer doing the sharing. Users trying to access the
share would be granted access under the guest account. The MAJOR downside to
granting access using the guest account is that if this computer access the
internet, users on the internet could possibly access your computer also
using the guest account.
Think of it this way. Your door is locked (shared folder) do you want to
just give keys only to the people you choose? (Creating each user and giving
that user access to the share) or do you want to just close the door and not
lock it and let everyone in that finds the door? (setting up the guest
account and granting it access)

In the end, setting up 6 users on 2 computers is WAY less involved and less
work, more secure and under your control than enabling the guest account and
trying to recover from some unknown "person" on the internet that WILL find
your computer using the guest account and load all that free space you have
with pirated software for their new "FTP" site, changed your passwords, and
locked you out of your computer or even worse, place a Trojan on your
computer that logs your keystrokes and sends the keystroke file back to them
where they can at their leisure get your passwords, social security info,
Bank account numbers etc..

It might take you a half hour to prevent years of recovery from Idenity
theft.

hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

 

[eagleguy]

Thanks for taking the time to go into so much! I will
definately keep the "Keys" in my back pocket!! I have
entered each child - your right, it wasn't so bad - and
I'll sleep better after the horror you laid out could
have happened if I tried a quick fix.

Again, thanks for taking the time to scare some widom
into me - it is much appreciated. ~ Paul

 

[Chuck]

Yikes!! I have them all set up as individuals on that
computer! With 5 kids and a wife (6 users) - are you
saying that I should load each user on the 2k machine
seperately also? I was using this machine to run programs
and have them put all their documents on the XP machine
which has the room for storage. Kind of a B/up computer
they all wouldn't have their "own" areas on.

It's a pain maintaining six accounts (and making sure passwords match
constantly) on both computers. But, as the other poster has
indicated, it's to your benefit to do this.

The intricacies here is one of the reasons why the domain model, as
opposed to workgroup model, is used in a network of any appreciable
size. It's much easier to maintain one set of accounts and passwords
on the domain controller, and have both desktop computers authenticate
from the domain controller instead of a local account directory.

Chuck
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