WIN XP

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I have three computers running win 2000, win XP Pro, and
win 95. when I try to access the XP workstation from the
workgroup I get a dialog box telling me "incorrect
password or unknown username" when I put the
Administrator in notthing happends. anyone out there know
of this problem and has an answer for this?
 
Do you have the share set to allow EVERYONE to allow it?
If it is set like that, then there should not be a
problem. If it is a restricted share, then when that
box comes up you will need to use the username"
Computer_Name\Administrator and the Administrative
password...hope that helps.

Tom
 
If you have simple file sharing enabled on the xp box, it validates against
the guest account and the permissions are whatever the Everyone group is set
to, since Everyone is the only group guest has access to.

When the connection is rejected, does it prefill the login box, with
username Guest ? This is normally an indication.

This is a very good article on simple file sharing and how it affects remote
access.

http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/wxpsimsh.htm

If you have turned off simple file sharing, then the system will try to
validate against a matching username/password pair. It will start with the
logged in username password on the client and look for a match on the remote
system, if it doesn't find one, that's when you get prompted to enter one.

I've always found, that if the username exists on both systems, the
passwords must match and hence you go staight in anyway,

Its when the username doesn't exist on both systems that you supply username
and password, I may be wrong !.

It seems to keep changing with every new version of windows !

Paul
 
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