Network misery: XP HE sees other machine, won't connect

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Richard Burke

Hi -

I have hooked a portable running XP Home into a network via a router. It
'sees' the other machine on the network - but in order to connect with
it, it demands a User Name and Password. The machine is WINDOWSPORTABLE,
and my uder name is Richard - so I type in:

WINDOWSPORTABLE\Richard
and my password

The same dialogue box just reappears... and reappears... and
reappears... No dice. And yes, the password is right. I have also tried
deleting my logon password and then entering no password: it won't
accept that either.

So I go through the "add network place" wizard, browse through to the
machine I want to connect to... Same result. "Map network drive" - same
result.

It can *see* the machine - and the other machine can see it, and
connects to it quite happily - so this has to be a problem with my XP
Home configuration, yes? But what am I doing wrong.

this is driving me crazy. Please help - but this is my first ever
Windows networking experience - so be gentle! :o\

TIA,

Richard
 
-----Original Message-----
Hi -

I have hooked a portable running XP Home into a network via a router. It
'sees' the other machine on the network - but in order to connect with
it, it demands a User Name and Password. The machine is WINDOWSPORTABLE,
and my uder name is Richard - so I type in:

WINDOWSPORTABLE\Richard
and my password

The same dialogue box just reappears... and reappears... and
reappears... No dice. And yes, the password is right. I have also tried
deleting my logon password and then entering no password: it won't
accept that either.

So I go through the "add network place" wizard, browse through to the
machine I want to connect to... Same result. "Map network drive" - same
result.

It can *see* the machine - and the other machine can see it, and
connects to it quite happily - so this has to be a problem with my XP
Home configuration, yes? But what am I doing wrong.

this is driving me crazy. Please help - but this is my first ever
Windows networking experience - so be gentle! :o\

TIA,

Richard
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Click to expand...
Your connecting to "a network". Is this a network that you
administrate? Are you configured peer-to-peer or are you
running a server? What OS's are your other networked
machines running? Is this a business network? HAve you set
up a machine trust along with a user account if you are
running a server? (ie. told the server about your laptop)
Is your laptop set to use TCP/IP as your network protocol?
if you are running a server, is DHCP and DNS services
running?(so your laptop can receive a new IP address from
the server). If you are peer-to-peer, have you manually
assigned a compatible IP address for your laptop? It
sounds like you don't have any connectivity problems so
this is simply a matter of configuring your network
settings correctly.
 
-----Original Message-----
Hi -

I have hooked a portable running XP Home into a network via a router. It
'sees' the other machine on the network - but in order to connect with
it, it demands a User Name and Password. The machine is WINDOWSPORTABLE,
and my uder name is Richard - so I type in:

WINDOWSPORTABLE\Richard
and my password

The same dialogue box just reappears... and reappears... and
reappears... No dice. And yes, the password is right. I have also tried
deleting my logon password and then entering no password: it won't
accept that either.

So I go through the "add network place" wizard, browse through to the
machine I want to connect to... Same result. "Map network drive" - same
result.

It can *see* the machine - and the other machine can see it, and
connects to it quite happily - so this has to be a problem with my XP
Home configuration, yes? But what am I doing wrong.

this is driving me crazy. Please help - but this is my first ever
Windows networking experience - so be gentle! :o\

TIA,

Richard
.
Click to expand...
Also, see if you can get NetBEUI protocol running on your
machines... sometimes it makes it a little easier.
 
-----Original Message-----
Hi -

I have hooked a portable running XP Home into a network via a router. It
'sees' the other machine on the network - but in order to connect with
it, it demands a User Name and Password. The machine is WINDOWSPORTABLE,
and my uder name is Richard - so I type in:

WINDOWSPORTABLE\Richard
and my password

The same dialogue box just reappears... and reappears... and
reappears... No dice. And yes, the password is right. I have also tried
deleting my logon password and then entering no password: it won't
accept that either.

So I go through the "add network place" wizard, browse through to the
machine I want to connect to... Same result. "Map network drive" - same
result.

It can *see* the machine - and the other machine can see it, and
connects to it quite happily - so this has to be a problem with my XP
Home configuration, yes? But what am I doing wrong.

this is driving me crazy. Please help - but this is my first ever
Windows networking experience - so be gentle! :o\

TIA,

Richard
.
Click to expand...
Are you running a domain? If so, you will need to set your
laptop to join that domain.
 
Stimpy said:
Your connecting to "a network". Is this a network that you
administrate? Are you configured peer-to-peer or are you
running a server? What OS's are your other networked
machines running? Is this a business network? HAve you set
up a machine trust along with a user account if you are
running a server? (ie. told the server about your laptop)
Is your laptop set to use TCP/IP as your network protocol?
if you are running a server, is DHCP and DNS services
running?(so your laptop can receive a new IP address from
the server). If you are peer-to-peer, have you manually
assigned a compatible IP address for your laptop? It
sounds like you don't have any connectivity problems so
this is simply a matter of configuring your network
settings correctly.
Click to expand...

Phew. Sorry not have supplied the necessary. OK...

Network is via an ADSL modem / router, which acts as a server. the
portable connects to this wirelessly, the other machine connects to it
via ethernet. The other machine is a Mac running OSX - but, truthfully,
the problem doesn't appear to be at that end.

Both machines are automatically configured by the router / server using
DCHP. I have tried assigning TCI/IP addresses manually, with no joy.

That is the entire extent of the 'network'. Not business - home use.

The machines can both 'see' each other, as I mentioned - both by
pinging, and through browsing. It's just that then I get this bizarre
demand for a username + password. I have checked for past queries on
Goggle, and the consensus is that the Username/password combination that
is requred is that of the logged on user of the XP machine, which is the
one I am tying to connect *from*. But, as I said, it gnored these when I
try them - even though they are indubitably right.

R
 
Are you running a domain? If so, you will need to set your
laptop to join that domain.
Click to expand...

Not to my knowledge... If this helps, when I try to browse through the
'network places' to find the other machine, the path goes:

My Network Places\Microsoft Windows Network\Workgroup\Cube
("Cube" is the machine in question).

(At the \Workgroup directory level, the other option is \Home. This path
goes \Home\WINDOWSPORTABLE\SharedDocs)

Is \Workgoup a domain? how would I switch it off?

Also, you mentioned NetBUI. I would have no idea where even to begin!

Thanks again.

Richard
 
Put them in the same workgroup. Right click My Computer
and go to the Name tab to change workgroups/domains. Right
click My Network places and right click on your network
connection and make sure you have "file and printer
sharing" service running in the window there.
 
Put them in the same workgroup. Right click My Computer
and go to the Name tab to change workgroups/domains. Right
click My Network places and right click on your network
connection and make sure you have "file and printer
sharing" service running in the window there.
Click to expand...

This sounds perfect. Except...

In the My Computer part, I can rename things, but there's stil lgoing to
be a workgroup, and it has to have a name. At present, it's 'Home'.
Changing it might be fine - but to what? And why?

As to the My Network Places connections: file and printer sharing is
already on.

I've tried again, and I still get he same demand for a user name and
password - and then it ignores them.

Thanks v much for the suggestions: any other ideas, though?

TIA,

Richard
 
OOPS!!!

It seems the Mac was to blame - who'd've thought it (well, any Windows
user, naturally!)...

There is a whole rigmarole you have to go through to persuade the Mac to
accept file sharing with Windows - I'd just enabled 'windows file
sharing', and thought that was the end of it...

For the full story, for any Mac / mixed users out there, and so it's on
record somewhere, here's Apple's article that tells you how:

<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107083>

happy networking one and all - and many, many thanks for the advice.

Richard
 
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