Shared drive problem

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I'm not sure if this is a problem with XP or Win2000. I reinstalled both.
Before the reinstall, I had the drives on both boxes shared so I could get
to them from each other box. After the reinstall, when I try to get to the
shared drives on the Win2000 box from the XP box, It asks for
userid/password, and I have to enter the id/password of the account running
on the Win2000 box. It used to not ask for any password. I have the guest
accounts enabled on both boxes.

If I boot to Win98 and try to get to the Win2000 drives, it asks for
password only, and won't accept the password, no matter what I enter. This
may be an issue on the Win2000 box.

PS sorry about the crossposting - wasn't sure what would be a good place
this.
 
try to create same logon id and password on both w2k/xp.

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How do I get win xp to ask for the user id and pass of the
win2k box? I have the same set up, but mine used to ask
for it and now it doesn't and I want it to... can you help?


Scott

PS. I've turned off Simple file sharing.
 
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I fixed it. All you have to do is turn on the guest account on the machine.
Although this does present a security risk, in the case of this network it's
a negligible risk.
 
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