Re: XP Requires Username and Password?????

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"Penelope610" wrote:



"Malke" wrote:

Penelope610 wrote:
I have 3 computers 2 XP Home and 1 Vista on a local wireless network. All
three can connect to the internet fine. The host computer is XP, and it can
share with the Vista computer fine and vice versa. The other XP can share
with the other 2 computers for sharing just fine, but they cannot connect to
it . When clicked, it brings up a username and password screen. How do I
get this computer to connect without this screen pop up or how do I use this
screen when I didn't set up a username or password for it?

Although you don't realize it, you do have a user account on that XP
box. If you never created one, it is probably XP Home and you got it
preinstalled from an OEM (HP, Dell, etc.). If this is the case, the user
account is probably something like "Owner". You can check by looking in
the User Accounts applet in Control Panel or in C:\Documents and
Settings to see what the actual name of the account is.

That said, assign a password to that account and then if you like you
can set it up to login automatically into that account so you'll go
directly to your Desktop just as always. This is how:

Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm

Then go to the other machines and create a user account and password
identical to that one. You don't need to be logged into that account but
it does need to exist on the other machines for network authentication.


Malke
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MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


Thank you for responding.
I did as you wrote. On the other 2 computers I created usernames and
passwords identical to that of xp which brings up a log on screen for access.
I checked for the user profiles on both computers which show up, but I am
still getting the log on screen. This computer has an outgoing problem! Any
other steps or suggestions? Thanks

It's working properly at last!
Thank you Malke for you help. Both you and Steve have my network working
smoothly.
.

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