uploading video from XP machine creates unwanted user/pass protect

[Guest]

I uploaded video (wmv) once from each of my two computers (win 2000 & winXP
media) to my site hosted by Yahoo. When I used IE to try to view the site and
play the video, I got a message requiring a username and password for a
network. This also happens when Yahoo technicians and anyone else tries to
view the video. This may have something to do with my (unsuccessful) efforts
to network the two computers. I did not mean to create any password protected
files and don't think I did because I would remember doing it.

Yahoo techs said it appears my video files have something attached from
microsoft that requires a username and password. You can see how this works at

http://www.personalpoliticalpower.com/example.html

This XP machine is new and I just recently played with the Media Center and
got it to display all my video files and played them. Then I used Yahoo's
SiteBuilder to upload one of those videos that I viewed. It feels like my
efforts to network the two computers somehow linked these files to a request
for username and password even after the file is uploaded to my internet
site. These files on the internet seem to think someone is trying to read
them through my home network. I have been able to upload other html pages all
along with no problems.

 

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Anchorman,
Is this your personal website? The following website does not appear to be on a yahoo hosting website:
http://www.personalpoliticalpower.com

Did you just include a link from the above site to your Yahoo Page, or upload the original file to the Yahoo site. The creator of the file may have included a username/password protection to the file, to prevent unauthorized use of it. The file also may not be viewable, except through the site listed above. And may require that you create a user acct with password to view file. To access this file from the site mentioned, you need to have logon privileges

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I uploaded video (wmv) once from each of my two computers (win 2000 & winXP
media) to my site hosted by Yahoo. When I used IE to try to view the site and
play the video, I got a message requiring a username and password for a
network. This also happens when Yahoo technicians and anyone else tries to
view the video. This may have something to do with my (unsuccessful) efforts
to network the two computers. I did not mean to create any password protected
files and don't think I did because I would remember doing it.

Yahoo techs said it appears my video files have something attached from
microsoft that requires a username and password. You can see how this works at

http://www.personalpoliticalpower.com/example.html

This XP machine is new and I just recently played with the Media Center and
got it to display all my video files and played them. Then I used Yahoo's
SiteBuilder to upload one of those videos that I viewed. It feels like my
efforts to network the two computers somehow linked these files to a request
for username and password even after the file is uploaded to my internet
site. These files on the internet seem to think someone is trying to read
them through my home network. I have been able to upload other html pages all
along with no problems.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the comments. I'm not technical so maybe I don't understand the
question. That's my website I pay Yahoo to "host." I use their software to
upload files. I create web pages and insert video files and upload the page.
The video files are files I created using Adobe Premiere from video I shot. I
have never required, nor do I know how to, a password. The Yahoo techs said
there are no password protected files on my site. I've been posting and
viewing video on this site for a year with no problems. I have user access to
the site and can add and delete pages, media, anything. The only thing that
is different is I put these files on my new XP and viewed them Media Center
before I uploaded them and -- after I tried unsuccessfully to network my two
computers. I feel that somehow in trying to network them I must have changed
some setting to require a password, and that requirement has attached to
these files even though I uploaded them to Yahoo's server. The same thing
happens no matter which of my two computers the files come from. FYI, when I
check network connections, under LAN or Internet connections, it shows

Local area connection disabled
Local area connection 2 connected
1394 Connection connected

(For video I have several external firewire drives.)

Which makes me think the computers think they are networked. But I have not
been able to access files back and forth.

Note that when you go to

http://www.personalpoliticalpower.com/test2.html

and get a demand for username and password, if you hit cancel, you can see
the media player and buttons. In the past, anyone could click play and the
video would play.

You'll note the demand says "Enter Network Password," although this is an
html page on my site. The message looks like a Windows message. But I am sure
I never typed in a password for my XP so I'm baffled.

 

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Thanks for the comments. I'm not technical so maybe I don't understand the
question. That's my website I pay Yahoo to "host." I use their software to
upload files. I create web pages and insert video files and upload the page.
The video files are files I created using Adobe Premiere from video I shot. I
have never required, nor do I know how to, a password. The Yahoo techs said
there are no password protected files on my site. I've been posting and
viewing video on this site for a year with no problems. I have user access to
the site and can add and delete pages, media, anything. The only thing that
is different is I put these files on my new XP and viewed them Media Center
before I uploaded them and -- after I tried unsuccessfully to network my two
computers. I feel that somehow in trying to network them I must have changed
some setting to require a password, and that requirement has attached to
these files even though I uploaded them to Yahoo's server. The same thing
happens no matter which of my two computers the files come from. FYI, when I
check network connections, under LAN or Internet connections, it shows

Local area connection disabled
Local area connection 2 connected
1394 Connection connected

(For video I have several external firewire drives.)

Which makes me think the computers think they are networked. But I have not
been able to access files back and forth.

Note that when you go to

http://www.personalpoliticalpower.com/test2.html

and get a demand for username and password, if you hit cancel, you can see
the media player and buttons. In the past, anyone could click play and the
video would play.

You'll note the demand says "Enter Network Password," although this is an
html page on my site. The message looks like a Windows message. But I am sure
I never typed in a password for my XP so I'm baffled.

 

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Have you tried using a Username and password (all of them if you have several usernames/passwords on PC) that you have for your PC, in the box that pop-ups?

You may have uploaded these files to Yahoo, but the link may be redirecting it back to the files that are saved on your PC. And you maybe the only one that can access them.

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Thanks for the comments. I'm not technical so maybe I don't understand the
question. That's my website I pay Yahoo to "host." I use their software to
upload files. I create web pages and insert video files and upload the page.
The video files are files I created using Adobe Premiere from video I shot. I
have never required, nor do I know how to, a password. The Yahoo techs said
there are no password protected files on my site. I've been posting and
viewing video on this site for a year with no problems. I have user access to
the site and can add and delete pages, media, anything. The only thing that
is different is I put these files on my new XP and viewed them Media Center
before I uploaded them and -- after I tried unsuccessfully to network my two
computers. I feel that somehow in trying to network them I must have changed
some setting to require a password, and that requirement has attached to
these files even though I uploaded them to Yahoo's server. The same thing
happens no matter which of my two computers the files come from. FYI, when I
check network connections, under LAN or Internet connections, it shows

Local area connection disabled
Local area connection 2 connected
1394 Connection connected

(For video I have several external firewire drives.)

Which makes me think the computers think they are networked. But I have not
been able to access files back and forth.

Note that when you go to

http://www.personalpoliticalpower.com/test2.html

and get a demand for username and password, if you hit cancel, you can see
the media player and buttons. In the past, anyone could click play and the
video would play.

You'll note the demand says "Enter Network Password," although this is an
html page on my site. The message looks like a Windows message. But I am sure
I never typed in a password for my XP so I'm baffled.

 

[Guest]

Again, thanks for the suggestions. I created a password and username and
still could not get the video files to play. The nonworking pass protected
files were in a folder within Yahoo's software I use to create web pages. I
created a new folder and imported two different video files into the new
folder. When I created web pages and inserted the video, it played fine. So
there is something about that folder that attaches a demand for username and
password. Given that this seems to work, I'm giving up and using this
workaround. Still wonder what all this was about.