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Wireless network woes in XP

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by bob

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creating a wireless network, everything is fine as far as internet sharing and seeing the other PCs in the my network places, but as soon as you attempt to access one it asks for a password. No passwords were created in the configuration of this network except the encryption key.
Where is this password and where did it come from?
All contributions to this dilemna will be greatly appreciated.

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by toivo talikka

It can be the Windows user password on the PC you are trying to access. Have you set up the shared directories and granted access to Everyone? Otherwise you need to log in to the PC you want to access through the network with an existing local username on that PC.

by andrew06

The shared folder that you are trying to access will generally have restrictive permissions on it for the account "Guest". If you set "Guest" to be able to Read the folder, then you should have no issues.

Please note that these permissions both have to be set under NTFS (if applicable) and under your share permissions. The group everyone should be set under the NTFS (Security) permissions, and then permissions narrowed down under the Shared tab.

by greybeard770

I assume this is a Workgroup rather than a Domain and that you have left the PC to autologon as Administrator at startup. I also assume the password prompt would occurr with the PCs hard wired together.
You can probably use Administrator with blank password.

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