Re: Login Problem

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To elaborate a bit on Pegasus' post, windows requires authentication to
allow users to access files. This is true at the network level and when
logging on locally. During the installation of Windows 2000, you are
presented with a dialog where you must type in and/or acknowledge the
"administrator" password. You can leave it blank (as many home users do),
but it's still a password. A little further along in the installation you
have a choice of "all users log on the same" or "users log on using separate
accounts" (sic). If you choose the former, you will never be asked for your
credentials. Odds are, you are automatically logging into the
"administrator" account. There's no way to know what the original password
was, but you can reset it. To be sure you're changing the password for the
administrator account, right-click "My Computer" and select "manage". Expand
"Local Users and Groups" in the left pane. Click "Users" to hilight it. In
the right pane, locate the "administrator" account, right-click and select
"Set Password". Type in a password if you like, or leave the fields blank if
you don't want to remember a password. When finished you'll get a notice
that the password was reset.

Now you can access shares using "administrator" as the username and a blank
field as the password. If you don't want to have to type this, you can
create an account on your daughter's computer that matches the username and
password that you use to log into your computer. As long as that acount has
permissions to access the shares you created, you will not be asked for a
username/password when connecting.

hope this helps.

....kurt


<M5vette@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1143985426.980318.264790@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have a small wireless home network with two systems connected. My
computer is password protected, but the other system (for my daughter)
has never required a password. I recently noticed that although we
could both access Internet, we could no longer see one another's
computer and I tried to correct the problem.

I made a change using the "Network Identification Wizard" (at this
point, I'm not sure of the exact nature of the change!) to my
daughter's system and rebooted. However, the system now wants a
username/password pair. Since the system wasn't originally set up to
require a username and password, I don't have any idea what it
expects.

How did a change to the Network ID result in a requirement for a
username and password at boot? These are required even if I limit
access to the network or try to boot in a Safe Mode (without network).
If I didn't assign a username and password at installation, what does
the system expect?

Is my only alternative to reinstall Win 2000?

Thanks,

Wayne



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