Trouble with file sharing password - please help!

[Guest]

We have a Windows XP SP2 (Home edition) on both our desktop and our laptop.
They are connected via a wireless network and everything worked perfectly
until we wanted to have the laptop do file sharing with the desktop's C
drive. I set up file sharing on the desktop according to microsoft KB
article 304040. But when I try to get the laptop to "see" the desktop's hard
drive, it asks for a "connect password". I have admin rights on both the
desktop and the laptop, but I do not know where I change or set up this
connect password. Would someone please tell us where on the desktop we can
either change or delete this password, so we can look at the desktop files
from the laptop? Thank you and Happy Holidays from Ron and Diane.

 

[Danny Sanders]

But when I try to get the laptop to "see" the desktop's hard

drive, it asks for a "connect password". I have admin rights on both the

Set up a user on the laptop using the same username and password used to log
onto the desktop. Share the proper folder on the laptop and grant the user
name you just set up proper permission to the folder.
When you connect you will not be prompted for a password.


hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

 

[Guest]

Danny thanks for your reply.
Right now all the laptop user accounts are already identical to the laptop
user accounts, and I still get the request for connect password. When the
desktop boots, the system automatically logs in to my wifes account without
any password dialog box. When the latop boots up, the system gives a
password dialog box for my wifes account, but we just hit Enter with no
password required. So when we try to have the laptop "see" the desktop's
hard drive, both computers are logged into my wifes account, and she has
admin status.
Should we still do as you suggest and set up another account, just for the
porpoises of file sharing?

 

[Danny Sanders]

Right now all the laptop user accounts are already identical to the laptop

user accounts, and I still get the request for connect password. When the
desktop boots, the system automatically logs in to my wifes account
without
any password dialog box. When the latop boots up, the system gives a
password dialog box for my wifes account, but we just hit Enter with no
password required.

If you are 100% sure each computer is logging on with the same username with
no password, test creating a folder on the laptop and share it. Then, on the
sharing dialog box (I would) remove "everyone" and click the "add" button to
add your wife's account. Then on the "security" tab add your wife's account
to the permissions. For the test give her account full controll in the
"share" permissions and the "security" permissions. Put a file in the folder
and go to the desktop computer, right click on my computer and select map
network drive, on the resulting dialog box choose a drive letter and type
\\laptopcomputername\sharename, where "laptopcomputername" = the
computername found when right clicking on my computer and selecting
properties - Computer name tab and view "full computername", and "sharename"
= the name of the share you created for this test.

Example the laptop name is Wife's laptop and the share name is Folder1 it
would look like this \\Wife's laptop\Folder1


If this works you should connect to the folder on the laptop and see the
file you placed there. If you get prompted for a password then your desktop
computer *is* logging in with a password. Go to control panel - user
accounts, highlight your wife's account and click reset password and don't
enter a password and click OK. There may be a dialog about changing the
password this way that you can safely ignore. Then test again. It should not
ask.

FYI this will connect you to this folder only. If you are wanting to "see"
the entire C drive you would not have to share the entire drive but you must
connect with the admin account (If your wife's account *is* the
administrator account on the laptop this account should work when using it
to log into the desktop) you would connect to the entire C drive like so:

\\wife's laptop\C$

hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE