Network logon failure unknown user name or bad password

I am trying to network two win 7 computers. I get the screen Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.
I have gone done the following: 1. Same user names and password 2. disabled windows firewall and avg free. 3. Answered "On" to all private network selections. 4. Local security policy to classic 5. Shared files I want to access. 6. Home group named as workgroup

The computer comes up in the Networking and Sharing. When selected I get the screen Logon failure: unknown username or bad password. I have even had my ISP pro look at this and he cannot figure it out. Same thing has happened to me in vista. I am using new win 7 installs. I can map drives with ip addresses and access.

Please advise if anyone has a solution or suggestion.

Thanks, James

Have you gone to "change advanced sharing settings?" I had a somewhat similar issue, but after going there and turning off passwords and such, everything worked just fine afterwards.

Ok this is weird, but it seemed to work. I had changed my date for a program. When i changed the date back to the right date/time everything seemed to start working on the network again. That is weird that a date and time would cause such a problem. I found this solution on http://windows7forums.com/windows- [...] olved.html

You May have a corrupt profile. open windows help and type in corrupt profile, you will get a defenition, info and instructions .

I cannot believe that this worked. I have spent hours trying to get my Win7 machine to access shares that it had no problems accessing in the past.

I should buy you a beer.

thank you so much!

i was having trouble accessing from 7 the folders shared on XP, i had searched and tried everything and nothing was working. turns out it was the date and time that were wrong on the XP machine!

win 7 computers
. I get the screen Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.

Fought this problem for a whole day!.. with windows 7 home premium could log on to other computers on my network but not my windows 2000 server.
Turns out that while the time and date were correct on the w7 machine, the time zone had not been set up correctly. When the time zone + the time and date were all within range of each other, the w 2000 server then accepted the login from the W7 machine.

I did find a post somewhere saying that the time had to be within say 30 minutes of the server or it would regard it as being invalid.

So, check the time zone as well as the date and time.

wow - vanzanten's fix worked for me!!! The system time simply was not the solution for me. I have a Netgear ReadyNAS connected via the network, and no matter what I tried I could not prevent Windows 7 from giving this "Network logon failure unknown user name or bad password" error after restarting the computer, or logging off & logging on.

It connects fine when you do it manually - but it would never remember the credentials - even when you select the "Connect using different credentials" and to "remember my credentials".

My system username was the same as the username on the ReadyNAS. I changed the ReadyNAS username by adding one letter - everything connected, and reconnected on log on

Thanks vanzanten!