Subj : Re: Passwords, sharing, and all that To : Randall Parker From : Geo. Date : Thu Mar 22 2001 10:51 am From: "Geo." "Randall Parker" wrote in message news:MPG.152420242211d31f98b89a@news.barkto.com... > I always manage to get file sharing to work on my home machines. But > after helping someone else I realize I'm not clear on a few things: > > 1) In order to do a file share between two computers do they both need to > have the same user name defined? For NT, no, you can enable the guest account and then you don't need to define a username on the NT machine that matches the machine which is going to connect to it. Without the guest account, yes you have to create the user. > 2) When doing a file share is it necessary to use the same user name that > you are logged on as when connecting to the other machine to share? No, you can "attach as" any user. > 3) Do both machines need to have the same password for the user name that > is being used to log in to do the sharing? Yes. > Well, he was logged in as Administrator on both machines but he claimed > he had different passwords for that user name. Yet the share with just > the user name entered (again, I didn't personally witness this visually) > worked across the machines. No, but if administrator has the same password then you can connect with no username/password being asked. It will just connect like there was no security as far as the user sees it. > Also, when I had him create a another user name, same user name and same > password on both machines. Then while he was still logged in as > Administrator he tried mapping to the Win2k drive from the NT machine > using this new user name. He was not able to do so. Is it not allowed to > specify a different user name than the one you are logged in as when you > do a mapping? When you click on the attach drive choice there is a "connect as" box where you put the username you want to connect as. Then when it talks to the other machine it will ask for the password for that username. > Or is there something about the settings for the same user on two > different machines that has to match in order to use that user to log in > to do file sharing? Could be he has the guest account active, could also be he is running a domain if one of the machines is server version. Geo. --- BBBS/NT v4.00 MP * Origin: Barktopia Gating Project http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45) .