Re: creating shares on a xp pro peer to peer network
- From: Malke <malke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 06:53:55 -0700
Terry R. wrote:
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.
Because you're connecting as Guest (which doesn't have anything to do with
the Guest user account you see in Control Panel, which is normally
disabled). You either have Simple File Sharing checked if you're using XP
Pro or you've got XP Home boxen which only connect as Guest.
If your method works for you and the lack of security works for you (or you
only have XP Home machines), then great. For most networks with mixed OS
boxen on them, it is necessary to create matching user accounts/passwords
for successful sharing. When people are having difficulties - or need to
set fine-grained permissions and/or restrictions without a domain
controller - the latter is the way to go so authentication (which is always
done locally peer-to-peer) is satisfied.
Malke
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