Go onto your roommates box and turn administrative tools on the start menu. Then go to Administrative tools, Local Security Policy. From there go to Local Policy - Security Options. In the right view, find Network Access: Sharing and Security for Local Accounts, then change that setting to Classic - local users authenticate as themselves. Also note the above setting where it shows which shares can be accessed anonymously.
On 1/21/06, Brett I. Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You might want to uncheck simple file sharing in the file options and see ifthat works.On Saturday January 21 2006 19:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:> On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 11:45:38PM +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote:
> > I can access my Windows XP Pro's shares with out user name or> > password quite successfully. Using both xsmbrowser and mounting> > them in the terminal. Are you sure that the other XP machines on
> > the network dont also require a password to access the shares?>> Did you have to do anything special to enable that kind of sharing?>> This is the only Windows box on the network (it's my local home
> LAN), so I don't have anything else to use as a comparison or> reference.>> >> Matt>> --> Matt Garman> email at:
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