stopping the login thing for shared folders on network

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hi
i run a win 2000 server on a windows xp network and when i go to log onto the shared folders on the 2000 machine from an xp clinet i get asked for a user name. i want the users to be able to log in anonymously and not be troubled with this login scree

i have heard that this is a registry change but any help would be appricate

Thanks Craig Ross
 
You'll want to create an account (in Users and Passwords) on the Win2k
machine(s) with the username and password that you use to logon to the WinXP
machine(s) with (and vice-versa). Then you'll need to share out the
resource(s) with permissions for those users. Also make sure they're all
part of the same workgroup. Then you'll no longer be prompted for the IPC$
password (Inter-process communication)

In a peer level workgroup, when you try to access resources on a Windows
2000/XP machine, Windows 2000/XP needs to authenticate the user. If the user
account doesn't exist in it's local account database, then access will be
denied.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
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| hi
| i run a win 2000 server on a windows xp network and when i go to log onto
the shared folders on the 2000 machine from an xp clinet i get asked for a
user name. i want the users to be able to log in anonymously and not be
troubled with this login screen
|
| i have heard that this is a registry change but any help would be
appricated
|
| Thanks Craig Ross
 
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