Windows XP Pro home notwork drive mapping problem

[joolzhaines]

Hi,

I am having a promlem with my home network of two windows XP pro computers, when I try and map a drive from one of the computer to the other such as \\computer1c$ and connect using a different user name, it pops up with a please enter your password as if I have entered an incorrect password. But I have setup a user on both systems with a very basic two char password so I now this to be not correct. I can view and ping both computers on the network so I can not see what this is happening.

Thanks for any help

Joolz

 

[linney]

This is an indication that enabling Simple File Sharing might solve the problem.
Also the Guest Account should be enabled.

Simple File Sharing- enabled

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp/filesharing.htm

Simple File Sharing - disabled

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/index.htm

http://www.michna.com/kb/wxnet.htm