Re: Why is login required to new PC on network?

You'll want to create an account (in Users Accounts) on the WinXP machines
with the username and password that you use to logon to the other machine(s)
with. Then you'll need to share out the resource(s) with permissions for
those users. Also make sure they're all part of the same workgroup and on
the same subnet. Then you'll no longer be prompted for the IPC$ password
(Inter-process communication)

In a peer level workgroup, when you try to access resources on a Windows
NT/2000/XP/2003 machine, Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 needs to authenticate the
user. If the user account doesn't exist in it's local account database, then
access will be denied.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"Nigel Andrews" wrote:
|I have a network of 4 x XP Pro PC's and have recently replaced an WindowsME
| PC with an XP Home PC.
| Whenever I try to browse the new PC from an XP Pro PC I get a login
prompt,
| whereas if I try to browse an XP Pro PC from the new one it works fine!
|
| Can anyone tell me why I get a login prompt and how I can get around it? I
| haven't any account on the new PC that I have set-up so I don't know any
| password!
|
| Thanks
| Nigel
|
|


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