Re: It's NOT WORKING AGAIN!

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From: Keppy (keppy_at_msn.com)
Date: 06/11/04 

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 09:21:59 -0700

I don't have matching names and passwords. Each computer has a different
name and log on, one is P25, one is 5205, one is Sew, and one is Carol. That
is the computer name and the log on name for that computer. They all do have
the same password. When I look at my network in the network connections I
see:
Network Name
Carol
P25
5205
Sew
And they are all connected and working now that I've disabled and re enabled
that device. All the others were always working OK. By OK I mean I can copy
files back and forth between all the computers from any one of them. That
way I can back up my main computer onto any one of the other three, or if
I'm working on the laptop in my bedroom, I can pull a file off the main
computer and continue working on that file on the laptop, then move it back
onto the main machine so the file is updated when I go to work on it on the
main computer. All computers have XP, but different versions. All I know is,
it works... YEAHHHHHHHH

Carol

"Phillip Windell" <@.> wrote in message
news:%23ycWLc8TEHA.984@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> "Keppy" <keppy@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:ubwFQR8TEHA.2580@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > I've always had my computer name and user names the same and it always
> > worked until the last couple months.
>
> Doesn't matter. I'm going to keep telling you the same thing. Having
> matching usernames & passwords on all machine in a Workgroup has been a
> "standard" since the days of Windows 3.11 and it isn't going to change. It
> is the way it has to be done.
>
> Seeing the machines and actually getting "use" out of the resources are
two
> different things.
>
> --
>
> Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
> www.wandtv.com
>
>

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