Re: disabling password request when connecting from the LAN

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From: Richard G. Harper (rgharper_at_email.com)
Date: 01/02/05 

Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 19:09:24 -0500

There is no "fix" - this is Windows security working as it is supposed to.
In the absence of a domain controller to provide access control lists to
shared resources, you must create an account on the host PC (the one with
the resources you want to share) with the same username (and password, if
one is used) that is used to log onto the client PC (the one you want to use
to access the shared resources on the host). 

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"NGShake" <NGShake@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:404C93C6-8BAF-45BC-AE4A-4C278787351B@microsoft.com...
> Hi. One of the machines on my LAN is running Win2k Pro. Whenever I need to
> access its files, etc, from any of the other machines (running an 
> assortment
> of other OSes) it always asks me for a username and password before 
> allowing
> the connection - I want to set it to accept any connection from the LAN
> without asking for identification.
>
> The win2k machine is already set not to ask for a username or password for
> local login (it automatically logs in to the 'Adminstrator' account by
> default), but this has made no difference to the identification request it
> seeks every time I want to connect to it remotely - and I can't find 
> anything
> anywhere to tell me how to fix it. Any suggestions gratefully received!
> Thanks.

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