Re: file sharing

Tiffany wrote:

Hi Malke,

All the laptops or desktop are Window Vista Business.

How to create the matching user accounts and passwords on all machines?
Kindly help.

Assuming this is a Workgroup and not a domain, go to each computer and
Control Panel>Users and create new users. Just the way you always create
users! All the users and passwords must match those on the other computers
if you want to share resources among them.

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Create matching user accounts and passwords on all machines. You do not need
to be logged into the same account on all machines and the passwords
assigned to each user account can be different; the accounts/passwords just
need to exist and match on all machines. DO NOT NEGLECT TO CREATE
PASSWORDS, EVEN IF ONLY SIMPLE ONES. If you wish a machine to boot directly
to the Desktop (into one particular user's account) for convenience, you
can do this. The instructions at this link work for both XP and Vista:

Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm

Malke
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