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Yup... it's a wide open shared root of the drive. All the permissions say "everyone" so I believe the only difference is that the machine that contains the share is in a different workgroup from the XP Home machine. I pulled my hair out on this one. Spent most of three days researching the...

OK, final post... In Win XP Home, there is NO WAY to (within the OS) store passwords. You can get around this Nuisance by using the NET USE command. Perhaps in a .bat file (NOTE: This is NOT a secure way as it exposes usernames and passwords in plain text!) Here's the Syntax: net use...

Thanks for your brain work on this one. When I do that (or go to it from the users applet in the control panel) there is no option to 'Add', and the list, even after authenticating, is empty. According to the MS website (I don't have the URL, sorry) 'manage passwords' in XP Home, is disabled...

The user manager in W2k indicated that the guest was active. I've run the command line in the prior post, when the boss comes in, we'll see if it works. I've investigated the "manage password" option - it seems that XP Home has crippled that, and other network friendly functions... argh...

Thanks for the reply. I'm at my whits end. No. The usernames and passwords are not synchronized on both machines and they never have been to the best of my knowledge. Unfortunately, the boss's machine is HIS personal machine and he hates usernames and passwords. He is quite irritated that...

My Win2k Pro SP4 machine has suddenly started requiring Username and Password from a WinXP Home SP1 machine. The XP machine is in a different workgroup, but it worked for over a year. The drives on the 2k machine have full permissions to "Everyone". I defragged the XP machine and installed a...