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XP system cannot be accessed on network.

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elkinm

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I have a network at home made of two Win XP systems. I recetly upgraded both to XP from Win ME. Both systems could access each other with ME and when I upgraded the first one to XP the ycould still acces each other without problems. Now that I put XP on the second system, it can acces teh other PC but when I try to acces files on the newly upgraded comtuter I get a password prompt. I don't have any paswords on that system and sertenly don't know what the pasword is. I've heard of this problem occuring with WIn 98 not accessing XP but not with two systems. Both use advanced sharing and all of the shared folders aloww access to "everyone" so how come one system can acces the other but not the other way arround?

Can somebdy please help me as I realy need to transfer some files between the two systems.

Thanks
 
"I've heard of this problem" Problem? It's not a problem, its some form of security, which win9X/ME doesnt have. Create user accounts on each machine. THe other alternative is enable the guest account on both machines.
 
How come everything is fine one one of the systems even though it has XP and the other system had no problems logging on to it before I upgraded to XP. Also, how does enabling the guest account fix this, maybee I can do it on my own. I hate this about XP or any system. Sacrificing usebility for security is uneccaptable. I can make any system just as secure and just as unusable, put a very big hamer or axe to it and I guarentee that it will be quite secure from unwanted access. Anybody know how to dissable ALL windows security features and I will just enable them as I go on.

Thanks
 
"Sacrificing usebility for security is uneccaptable"

Perhaps the silliest thing I have ever read on here. Takes you approximately 15 seconds to create a user account or enable the guest account. With your perspective, going the guest account is probably the best route. Wont have to worry about creating those oh so difficult user accounts. Lol
 
Neither one works at all, I still cannot access one computer from the other one. And I know that I don't need to anything to alow access as the other XP system has never restrected access to it and creating an accout for the network is just plain a bad way to do things as windows should be adaptable to multiple enviorments regardless of what network it is connected to.

Please help me. There just has to be someone who knows how to get rid of this problem.

Thanks aggain.
 
You can always run Linux 🙂 Now there is an OS that have very high security as well as very good usability (trust me, you just need to remember that a command prompt can do MANY things).
 
"Neither one works at all,"

If done properly either works. It's a feature not a liability or a "problem" but you are clearly not rational so I am bowing out. Its not necessary but run your network wizard. In my opinion you are just not doing something correctly and then in a tiff blaming it on an operating system. It remarkable easy to setup and get working. If you still getting a password prompt then you didnt add the proper user account. Or you not logging on to the remote machine with the user name you created on the local one. One of the two. Period. That is all assuming you have connectivity at all. At this point I wouldnt trust anything you say you have done or havent done. One thing I bet you never even tried was the help files which are excellent in win2K and XP. Good luck. lol
 
Ran into the same problem with my home LAN which was perfect under ME.

Here's a fix that works (Microsoft be damned!):

Go to the XP Pro CD and look for the Valueadd folder, and them \MSFT, and then \NET. Then \NETBEUI.

In NetBEUI are three files . . . NBF.SYS and NETNBF.INF and a text file. Copy the NBF.SYS file into your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 folder, and copy the INF file into your \WINDOWS\INF folder.

Then open Network Connections in Control Panel, right click on Local Area Connections and select PROPERTIES. Then you add the NetBEUI Protocol. Then under the Authetication tab (same screen) you uncheck "Enable . . . .IEEE 802.1" After that your Microsoft Network will be back to normal, and that is OK. You are giving up all sorts of gee whiz security, but none of that is needed in a home LAN. 🙂

 
I narowed down the problem. The system that has the problem also has a dial-up modem and I share it's connection with the other XP system. I noticed that when the system is not online the nwtwork works nice and faast, but as soon as it goes online which it does almost instantly as it share s the connecton. then the browsing speed suffers. When I disconect the dial-up sonnecton it aggain browses normaly, but only aas long aas the modem is not connected.

I tried two modems one of which was an HCF with the latest drivers aand I still get the same slowdowns. Firewall and file sharing on the mmodem are disabled.

Any Ideas?
 
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