Arggghhhh!

[Jerry]

Situation: two computers in a home network, both XP Pro...one a desktop,
one a laptop, assigned to a workgroup. When using Network Neighborhood and
connecting to the laptop from the desktop, I'm asked for username/password
and then I enter the info and connect fine. When connecting to the desktop
from the laptop, the connection goes straight through with no username
password requested.

The hard drive on the laptop was just recently formatted and XP Pro
installed so I believe it must be some security setting on the desktop that
allows this behavior but I can NOT find it.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!
Jerry

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

The one that asks for a username and password has had simple file
sharing disabled in the Folder Options control panel. It's curious
because simple file sharing is the default setting for most installation
scenarios I have experienced.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows



"Jerry" > wrote in
message . com...

> Situation: two computers in a home network, both XP Pro...one a
> desktop,
> one a laptop, assigned to a workgroup. When using Network
> Neighborhood and
> connecting to the laptop from the desktop, I'm asked for
> username/password
> and then I enter the info and connect fine. When connecting to the
> desktop
> from the laptop, the connection goes straight through with no username
> password requested.
>
> The hard drive on the laptop was just recently formatted and XP Pro
> installed so I believe it must be some security setting on the desktop
> that
> allows this behavior but I can NOT find it.

[Jerry]

Thanks Kent,

Checked my desktop computer and laptop computer..."Use Simple File Sharing"
is NOT checked on either one.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,
Jerry

"Kent W. England [MVP]" > wrote in message
...
> The one that asks for a username and password has had simple file
> sharing disabled in the Folder Options control panel. It's curious
> because simple file sharing is the default setting for most installation
> scenarios I have experienced.
>
> --
> Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows
>
>
>
> "Jerry" > wrote in
> message . com...
>
> > Situation: two computers in a home network, both XP Pro...one a
> > desktop,
> > one a laptop, assigned to a workgroup. When using Network
> > Neighborhood and
> > connecting to the laptop from the desktop, I'm asked for
> > username/password
> > and then I enter the info and connect fine. When connecting to the
> > desktop
> > from the laptop, the connection goes straight through with no username
> > password requested.
> >
> > The hard drive on the laptop was just recently formatted and XP Pro
> > installed so I believe it must be some security setting on the desktop
> > that
> > allows this behavior but I can NOT find it.
>

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

Either check simple file sharing on both, or create the user accounts on
the one that you created on the other, so that a user can logon to one
machine and be authenticated to the identical username on the other
machine.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows



"Jerry" > wrote in message
. com...
> Thanks Kent,
>
> Checked my desktop computer and laptop computer..."Use Simple File
> Sharing"
> is NOT checked on either one.
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Jerry
>
> "Kent W. England [MVP]" > wrote in message
> ...
> > The one that asks for a username and password has had simple file
> > sharing disabled in the Folder Options control panel. It's curious
> > because simple file sharing is the default setting for most
> > installation
> > scenarios I have experienced.
> >