Well I try this at home and it works flawlessly. The only problem is to be able to get the prompt back since the remote XP Pro machine store the previous login, you have to restart. This is a default behavior with XP and 2000.
Because of this method, I think it's the reason why you are running into issues.
Not sure if there's a fix for this in the registry but I will look it up.
Just remember that, if you have identical account with identical password on each computer, it will skip the login prompt. This goes true if you have the guest account enable, since XP Home and XP Pro (if using simple file sharing) are force to authenticate with this account by default.
Just remember that, if you have identical account with identical password on each computer, it will skip the login prompt. This goes true if you have the guest account enable, since XP Home and XP Pro (if using simple file sharing) are force to authenticate with this account by default.
If Windows XP Professional doesn't recognize the user name and password presented by a Windows 2000 or XP computer which wants to access a share, you can enter different credentials. Here, we're logged on to another Windows XP computer as a user which doesn't have an account on the computer named RONS-PC. Entering a valid user name and password grants access.
he basic answer is YES. You need to create identical user accounts on all machines which a user needs to access. It's best if the user name and password are the same on all of them. Then, the user name and password offered by that machine will be accepted by all of the other computers.
If Windows XP Professional doesn't recognize the user name and password presented by a Windows 2000 or XP computer which wants to access a share, you can enter different credentials. Here, we're logged on to another Windows XP computer as a user which doesn't have an account on the computer named RONS-PC. Entering a valid user name and password grants access.
he basic answer is YES. You need to create identical user accounts on all machines which a user needs to access. It's best if the user name and password are the same on all of them. Then, the user name and password offered by that machine will be accepted by all of the other computers.
Yes you are right, computerA wants to connect to computerB, so computerA has to login as an account on computerB. That's basically how workgroup works on Windows. If you had the same account and that account has the same password, it would use this identical account and skip the prompt. Take the Guest account for example, this Guest account has no password and it's on every Windows XP and 2000. This is the account that XP and 2000 use by default for network file sharing. This is the only account that doesn't need a password. All other created account must be password protected in order to be able to be used over the network.
This is the transparent way, identical account with identical password. No login prompt is presented. ComputerA has an account call Tom and password of "password" and so does ComputerB, while the Guest account is disable, ComputerA will use Tom on ComputerB to login without prompting you. The same is true if ComputerB wants to access ComputerA. ComputerB will use the account Tom on ComputerA without prompting you.
this could prove useful, thanks. will try it.The solution I found, is to delete the account that it's using on the remote computer and recreate another one. Then it will prompt again. Check Computer Management >Share Folder> Session to on the remote computer and see what the other computer is login as.
ok, so both computers (Com A and Com B) have identical accounts called "Tom" on them.. transparrent sharing of a secured shared resource.. fine.. but, will it work when:
1) Com A is not logged in as Tom
2) Com B is not logged in as Tom
3) Both arent logged in as Tom