Help with user authentication on WinXp from Win2000

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Graham N

Hi - Hope someone can help.....
I have 2 PC's - a Windows2000 one that can be accessed via Network Places
and can see all the shares etc. from the other (a WinXP-Pro system) no
problem.
XPpro however asks for user id/password - which it never accepts (all ids
and passwords are set the same on BOTH systems as far as I can see).
The ONLY way I can get it to work is to enable the Guest account on the XP
system via security policy (interestingly the Guest account shows as
disabled in the user accounts area and the system doesn't allow logons as
"guest" on the local system).

Is this the way it is meant to be, or is there a way for the XP system to
permit authenticated access with the Guest a/c permissions 100% disabled?

Thanks in anticipation.

Graham.
 
Graham N said:
Hi - Hope someone can help.....
I have 2 PC's - a Windows2000 one that can be accessed via Network Places
and can see all the shares etc. from the other (a WinXP-Pro system) no
problem.
XPpro however asks for user id/password - which it never accepts (all ids
and passwords are set the same on BOTH systems as far as I can see).
The ONLY way I can get it to work is to enable the Guest account on the XP
system via security policy (interestingly the Guest account shows as
disabled in the user accounts area and the system doesn't allow logons as
"guest" on the local system).

Is this the way it is meant to be, or is there a way for the XP system to
permit authenticated access with the Guest a/c permissions 100% disabled?

Thanks in anticipation.

Graham.
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Ok, have managed to solve having found the relevant section in the XP
resource kit.

For others in the same situation where they cannot access the XP system from
a 2000 system due to use id/passwords being asked for AND not accepted this
may be the reason.......

In local security settings, "Network Access Sharing and security model for
local accounts" needs to be set as "classic - local users authenticate as
themselves". and all users ids passwords must be the same *and* exist on all
the systems. The other sec policy option is "Guest only" (this is the
default for XP). If, like me, you disabled the guest account, this default
option won't work. So you either setup all user ids/passwords on all systems
you wish to network between and set the security policy to "classic" or run
with the XP default and ensure the guest account is enabled from within the
local security policy "accounts: guest account status"
HTH someone.

Graham.
 
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