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by taozensteve

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I have a small network of 10 computers running Professional, and my own machine running XP Pro. I want to set up a network drive that gives access to all users without asking for username or password. I did it once by right-clicking on the drive itself, and got a warning that everyone would have access. I had to reformat the drive and reinstall everything, but when I try to do the share now, it insists that everyone log in, I can't re-create the same situation I had before (which was perfect) Any suggestions?

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by quintar51

Make sure 'reconnect at logon' is checked when mapping the network drive on the clients' machines. Make sure everyone is in the same workgroup also.

The only other way I can think of acheiving this is by using a domain, or with a login script.

by taozensteve

They are already in the same workgroup, and before this problem, I just pulled a shortcut from the network drive and the shortcut worked fine (for 2 months) until I had to reformat.

by vinnyd

On the computer that has the share you must add each user in with the same password and login name that they use on thier own computer!

All of the user accounts do not need to be on the other computers! Only on the computer that has the share.It is very is very important that the user login name and password match!

Then they can just login to thier own computer once and have access to the share on the other computer using peer to peer networking.

A word of caution! Win XP and Win 2k Pro only allow 10 users at one time to connect to a share! No more! That is a limit contained in them.

If you need to have more users in the future mapping to the same share you will have to get a server.

by beermonster

Hi,
Windows xp comes with a 'new' form of file sharing called 'simple file sharing'. If your users were not previously asked for credentials, it was almost certainly because then you had this option enabled - whereas now you do not. In explorer go to tools \ folder options and select the view tab. Scroll down, and check the simple file sharing box. Hope this helps...

by taozensteve

Yes, this is the answer I was looking for. I did exactly as you recommended and it worked perfectly. Thank you!

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