Networking two XP systems

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Eric

Greetings all,

This is very strange. I just reformatted my XP home
machine. I went through all the troubleshooting steps as
shown below and just cannot figure this out. -- It's very
weird.

I have two XP machines connected via router sharing a
broadband connection. One machine is XP Home, and the
other machine is XP Pro. The XP Home machine can access
the XP Pro without any problems. However, when I try to
access the Windows XP Home machine, I get a password
prompt.

The XP firewall is disabled and NetBIOS over TCP/IP is
enabled on all machines (not the default). No other
personal firewalls are installed on the XP Home machine.
The Windows XP Home machine does have a null password
when logging on the machine.

What's the problem?
 
Greetings all,

This is very strange. I just reformatted my XP home
machine. I went through all the troubleshooting steps as
shown below and just cannot figure this out. -- It's very
weird.

I have two XP machines connected via router sharing a
broadband connection. One machine is XP Home, and the
other machine is XP Pro. The XP Home machine can access
the XP Pro without any problems. However, when I try to
access the Windows XP Home machine, I get a password
prompt.

The XP firewall is disabled and NetBIOS over TCP/IP is
enabled on all machines (not the default). No other
personal firewalls are installed on the XP Home machine.
The Windows XP Home machine does have a null password
when logging on the machine.

What's the problem?
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Eric,

Try setting up an account on the XP Home machine with a non-blank
password, and an identical account / password on the XP Pro machine.
Then login to the XP Pro machine with that account / password.

Cheers,

Chuck
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Chuck, the XP Home can access the Pro without the
password prompt. It's when the Home machine tries to
access the Pro machine is when I get the password prompt.
I just don't understand that. It doesn't make any sense
to me at all.
 
Still having trouble. On the XP Home machine, I went into
the User Accounts in the Control Panel, and then enabled
the Guest.

Now, when the XP Pro machine tries to access the XP Home
machine, I receive the following error:

"\\<computername> is not accessible. You might not have
permission to use this network resource. Contact the
Administrator to find out if you have access permission.

Logon failure: the user has not been granted the
requested logon type at this computer."

That's the exact error I receive. Any suggestions?


_____________________
Eric
 
The Node type in the ipconfig/all shows it as unknown. On
the XP Pro it is Hybrid.

Does that make any difference?
 
Anybody got suggestions?

-----Original Message-----
The Node type in the ipconfig/all shows it as unknown. On
the XP Pro it is Hybrid.

Does that make any difference?



.
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Eric,
I had this same problem under almost identical conditions. Setting up a
wireless home network with a desktop (XP Pro) and laptop (XP Home). The
machines can "see" each other and the folders I shared (once I figured out
that the myriad of firewalls on both machines were blocking network access
to each other!), but when I tried to access the shared folder on the XP Pro
machine from the laptop, I was prompted for a username and password. The XP
Pro machine is set up with a null password but the laptop (XP Home) has a
logon password. I tried every combination of user/passwords that were on the
password protected machine but to no avail. I eventually fixed the problem
by enabling "simple file sharing" on both machines under Folder Options,
which I'm really not thrilled about, but I wonder if some network wizard out
there can explain how to correctly fix the problem keeping security in mind?

-Tmax60

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: Greetings all,
:
: This is very strange. I just reformatted my XP home
: machine. I went through all the troubleshooting steps as
: shown below and just cannot figure this out. -- It's very
: weird.
:
: I have two XP machines connected via router sharing a
: broadband connection. One machine is XP Home, and the
: other machine is XP Pro. The XP Home machine can access
: the XP Pro without any problems. However, when I try to
: access the Windows XP Home machine, I get a password
: prompt.
:
: The XP firewall is disabled and NetBIOS over TCP/IP is
: enabled on all machines (not the default). No other
: personal firewalls are installed on the XP Home machine.
: The Windows XP Home machine does have a null password
: when logging on the machine.
:
: What's the problem?
 
Greetings Tmax60,

Yes, but that isn't my problem because:

1. Windows XP Home always uses Simple File Sharing.
Everyone on the network can access shared resources
without passwords.

2. No firewall is installed on the XP Home machine. The
XP's firewall is disabled.

The problem is when XP Pro tries to access XP Home. The
Windows XP Pro get's a password prompt when trying to
access shared resources on XP Home machine.

Why? It doesn't make sense...

______________________
Eric

-----Original Message-----
Eric,
I had this same problem under almost identical conditions. Setting up a
wireless home network with a desktop (XP Pro) and laptop (XP Home). The
machines can "see" each other and the folders I shared (once I figured out
that the myriad of firewalls on both machines were blocking network access
to each other!), but when I tried to access the shared folder on the XP Pro
machine from the laptop, I was prompted for a username and password. The XP
Pro machine is set up with a null password but the laptop (XP Home) has a
logon password. I tried every combination of
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user/passwords that were on the
 
For others in the same situation where they cannot access to an XPpro system
from
another XP/2000 system due to use id/passwords being asked for but 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 id's passwords must be the same *and* exist on all
the systems. The other security policy option is "Guest only" (this is the
default for XP).

If, like me, you have the guest account DISABLED as a security measure, this
default
option WON'T work. So you have two options:

1. setup all user ids/passwords on all systems that you wish to network
between and set the security policy to "classic" or....

2. run with the XP defaults and ensure the guest account is ENABLED from
within the local security policy "accounts: guest account status".

HTH.

Graham.
 
Eric,
The node type but a node type of "hybrid" usually means the machine is
configured to point towards
a WINS server (it queries the NetBios Name Server for name to address
translation)
Is the TCP-IP properties assigned by a DHCP server or static ip? If static,
check to see if the system is
configured to point towards a WINS server.

HTH.
 
Eric,

did you fix this problem? I have the exact same symptoms and have tried just
about everything.

Thanks,
rudy
 
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