File and printer sharing

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Hi,

Can anyone shed some light on this for me please...

I have set F+P sharing on comp A and im trying to view the shared drive
on comp B. I'm using windows xp pro with SP2 on both pc's.

However each time I try to connect to the shared drive I get prompted
for a username and password. The username box is already filled in with
the details of the guest account (which is disabled on both pc's) so i
am unable to change this. There is also no password set on the guest
account on either pc anyway.

Can someone tell me how to remedy this before i throw both pc's out of
the window

Many thanks,
Chris

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?)

Chris, maybe this will shed some light
http://asia.cnet.com/enterprise/ne [...] 730,00.htm


"Chris H" <spam@nospamtodaythanks.net> wrote in message
news:429603a4$0$76008$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net...
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this for me please...
>
> I have set F+P sharing on comp A and im trying to view the shared drive on
> comp B. I'm using windows xp pro with SP2 on both pc's.
>
> However each time I try to connect to the shared drive I get prompted for
> a username and password. The username box is already filled in with the
> details of the guest account (which is disabled on both pc's) so i am
> unable to change this. There is also no password set on the guest account
> on either pc anyway.
>
> Can someone tell me how to remedy this before i throw both pc's out of the
> window
>
> Many thanks,
> Chris