Disabling logon-window when access through home-network

26 Sep 2006 8:06 PM

Pinguan

Hi there,
I have installed a home network (2 win-Home, and 1 WinXP). Everything works,
that is I can access all (shared doc's) on all pc's from all pc's, but when I
want to access my WinXP computer I get promted with an logon-screen, which
askes for a username and password.
How can I disable that prompt?
It 's quit annoying, because the printer I want to share is on the winXP
computer and before I can print I have to explicitly make a connection to the
printer...

26 Sep 2006 10:25 PM

Chuck

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:06:01 -0700, Pinguan <Ping***@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>Hi there,
>I have installed a home network (2 win-Home, and 1 WinXP). Everything works,
>that is I can access all (shared doc's) on all pc's from all pc's, but when I
>want to access my WinXP computer I get promted with an logon-screen, which
>askes for a username and password.
>How can I disable that prompt?
>It 's quit annoying, because the printer I want to share is on the winXP
>computer and before I can print I have to explicitly make a connection to the
>printer...

I'm guessing that what you have is 2 Windows XP Home, and 1 Windows XP Pro? If
so, just enable the Guest account, on the XP Pro computer, and activate it for
network access.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#Activate>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#Activate

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