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I am totally fed up with passwords and logins and memorable words and
favourite dates and all the other James Bond palava that people have dreamed
up to make my life difficult - like I have over 85 logins for websites, some
with as many as four items to enter before I can buy something. I certainly
don't want a password to enter my own computer in my own home unless I
specifically set one, which I never do. So I don't want to be forced into a
situation where XP Pro tries to make me set a password in order to see the
shares on one or other of my two networked computers. That means I adopt
the strategy of disabling the security policy item which requires it, pretty
much as a matter of principle. I didn't set a password when I installed XP
Pro, and I will not be coerced into setting one retrospectively.
David Kelsey
"Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@cable0ne.n3t> wrote in message
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> Willis Weldin wrote:
>> How do I change a network share password in XP Pro using workgroups? I'm
>> trying to access my XP Pro PC from a Windows 98 PC and I am being asked
>> for a password. As far as I can remember I never setup a password on the
>> XP Pro system.
>>
>>
>
> Then, that would probably be the problem.
>
> On the WinXP computer, create local user account(s), with non-blank
> password(s), that have the desired access privileges to the desired
> shares. Log on to the other PCs using those account(s), and you will be
> able to access the designated shares, provided your network is configured
> properly. Also, if running WinXP SP1 or later, make sure that WinXP's
> built-in firewall is disabled on the internal LAN connection. If using
> WinXP SP2, make sure that you've either disabled the built-in firewall, or
> set the firewall to allow file and print sharing.
>
> Usually, WinXP's Networking Wizard makes it simple and painless --
> almost entirely automatic, in fact. There's a lot of useful,
> easy-to-follow information in WinXP's Help & Support files, and here:
>
> Home Networking
>
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/howto/homenet/default.asp
>
> Networking Information
>
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking.htm
>
> PracticallyNetworked Home
>
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/index.htm
>
> Steve Winograd's Networking FAQ
>
http://www.bcmaven.com/networking/faq.htm
>
>
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>
> Bruce Chambers
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