win2k share password?

[sm0rk]

I just performed a fresh install to one of my machines. I shared the C drive, set the users to everyone (to see if it would set up correctly w/o security) and then when I tried to connect, it prompted me for a password for the drive.

The problem is: I never entered a password to be used, and I can't find anywhere on the computer or on the net a default password or why I'm even recieving a password prompt in the first case.

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks

 

[erikhertzel]

If you didn't enter a password, then make sure you don't have a password on the other PC as well.

I.E. If you have a user administrator on the one Pc that you are sharing and a blank password, make sure that the other PC has a user administrator and a blank password as well. Then, you won't get prompted for a password.

Erik

 

[wolluf]

Blank passwords don't work for 2k network connectivity.

sm0rk - are the machines involved all 2k? If any are 9x/ME, they will need to log on with user name/password which exists as a user on the 2k machine (and not a blank password). Otherwise they will get just a password (no user) prompt, which can't be correctly filled.

If 2k/nt/xp machine tries to connect it should get a username/password prompt - so you can supply valid one for the machine.

alternatively you can enable the guest account - this gives open access to shares - but is a major security risk if machine is on the internet.

 

[sm0rk]

I tried Erik's solution this morning, and the problem seems to have been resolved, for now

Thanks for the input.