Re: creating shares on a xp pro peer to peer network

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The date and time was 5/27/2008 4:56 AM, and on a whim, Malke pounded out on the keyboard:

jawdoc wrote:


When you say generic account, you mean create an account with the same
name and password on each machine?

If you aren't using a domain controller, yes you will need to create the
same username and password on all machines that need to share resources. If
the only shared resources are on one computer, then you only need to create
the matching user accounts/passwords on that one computer hosting the
resources, not on all the workstations.


This must be a troubleshooting method, correct? I've never had to set up identical accounts on workstations when setting up shared folders.

This particular workstation I work on has shared folders, and none of the workgroup workstations have logins/passwords that match this one, but sharing works fine on all of them.

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