Unless you enable the Guest account, Windows on the server side looks at the incoming connection and queries who you are. Let's say I have an account on the server called "BOB". OK, now I'm logged into my other PC as "BOB" with same password and if it's all set up, I will be able to connect because of an old system Microsoft called "Single Sign On." So that's how we avoid the question about who we are in a small network.
If you don't have a matching account on service and client, then it will ask, but only if the guest account is disabled.
And don't going around enabling the guest account without knowing that it opens the door to really bad things. That is, if some virus is on the network it's free to do whatever on all shares when that's enabled. Some don't care since they backup what they can't lose.
Bob
I only use my two PCs at home, and when I install windows, I never use a password for admin or anything else. Forgive me ( head down)
but I have been on PCs since their birth, so I get it and deal with it. Please don't hurt me?
I have a home network with a win 7 machine, and an XP pro machine. Both with the latest SPs installed I have no official IT Training and neither does anyone else I know. We all learn as we have to. Passwords have always killed me.
When I am on the Win 7 machine, I want to access the files or get them from an my XP machine so I open network places to view or share files on XP from win7 and XP wants my name and password. Never in my whole life has anyone ever explained to me where this password originates. I would be one happy user if someone could tell me what I have to do on the XP machine to allow me to get at its files from win7, or any other Win version in the first place ![]()
I would assume that since I never assigning admin passwords, windows is generating something for me and blocking my Win7 access. My life is simple, again its just me without any passwords ever entered. ever.
I don't think I need to know why it wants authentication, I am just kind of begging someone to tell me how to go to the XP machine and tell it that its okay for user " fred" password " ethel" to gain access via the network.
I would settle for no password, just a user or whatever is mandatory. I want to learn where this information is given to the XP machine so I can control it and track it.
I got into the same problem with remote desktop and cannot use remote between the two machines because I have no idea where each one gets the user and password information. (Its my machine can't I just set the user/password myself?)
As an user of the old Win 3.1, I have been at it for years and never found a source to explain passwords and users security. Usually, I search and get tons of pages with screen shots and " click this" or " click that" instructions and half the time "this" or " that" cannot be found ![]()
I think that is enough. I am on win7, trying to gain access to XP. Since I have full control of the XP machine, what do I enter and where does it go to let me get into XP , from win 7.
Thank you for reading all of this. I understand password requirements, but I am the only user of any of them so i think a k.i.s.s. approach would be the right method
Much obliged in advance and thanks for the foruml
John

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