Re: Help Connecting to other PC's

From: Richard G. Harper (rgharper_at_email.com)
Date: 08/02/04 

Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 18:11:58 -0400

Nope, because when your computer goes out to the network it will go out
there with Administrator and <your password>, not the shared one. You
could, of course, use the known logon to connect to shares - when the box
pops up asking for a username and password, use the known common account to
connect. The only problem with this is that each time you reboot or log off
and on you'll need to re-input the password to re-connect to your shares. 

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"Clayton" <claytonbNOSPAM@xtra.co.nz> wrote in message 
news:%23nk7FaNeEHA.4092@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> If the username and password account has been created on each machine does
> the user need to logon with that username and password or is it still ok 
> to
> logon as Administrator and <your password>?
>
>
> "Richard G. Harper" <rgharper@email.com> wrote in message
> news:uxtU5OVdEHA.2352@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> In a workgroup environment, in order to connect to another PC without
>> entering a user name and password you need to make sure that the name and
>> password you're using on the guest PC matches a name and password on an
>> account on the host PC.  So, if you're logged in at PC "A" with the name
>> "Clayton" and the password "password" and you want to access a
>> folder/printer on PC "B", you must create a user account on PC "B" with
> the
>> name "Clayton" and the password "password".  This is done in the Control
>> Panel with the Users and Passwords tool.
>>
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>> Richard G. Harper [MVP Win9x]  rgharper@email.com
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>>
>> "Clayton" <claytonbNOSPAM@xtra.co.nz> wrote in message
>> news:emrL3$UdEHA.3476@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> >I have 3 computers all running Windows 2000 and when I connect to one of
>> > them it asks for a username and password which I enter in and gain
> access
>> > to
>> > that pc, but on restart I have to go through the procedure again and
> when
>> > I
>> > want to print to a printer connected to another computer pc via the
>> > network
>> > it will not print until I goto that computer via network neighbourhood
> and
>> > enter the username and password, is there a way I can do all this with
>> > entering passwords etc?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Clayton
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

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