Ask a login name and password while no password is set

[dickylam]

I have a strange question

I have a server, running Win2K server, using active-x directory user and domain to set all users name and password

Also, I have 4 sets of workstation running Windows Xp Home

By the way, everything is working fine. Except

If I double click the "My network places" in the Win2K server, then double-click entire network --> Microsoft Windows Network , I will see all the others workstations name, but only 1 of the workstation when I double - click inside it will ask me to input "Connect as and password", but none of the workstations was set any password and all users level are administrator only, including all shared folders.

I really do not understand why the server ask the login name and password to one of the workstations while it is nothing set in password ?

Any one have idea please let me know. Here I am thinking the following possibilities:-

1. Windows XP Home support up to 5 users in a single network and my situation is using 4 workstations running Windows XP home and 1 is using Win2K server, will this be the reason ?

2. I have even changed the computer name of the one workstation that create problem to me but still it is asking. So that it will not be the problem of user name and password.

3. In the ActiveX directory of user and domain, I have add the one workstation inside the computer but still asking, I think I also do not understand what is the use of adding computer inside the activeX directory user and domain, is this for the management purpose only ?


Thanks a lot of your help.

 

[ashpp]

First of all, XP Home can't connect to domains. Your question may be better off in the Microsoft Windows XP forum.

>active-x directory

btw Active Directory not active-x

>but none of the workstations was set any password and all >users level are administrator only, including all shared >folders.

So the one thats for the password does it let you in? What about the others?
Have you tried typing in the username with the blank passwords?

>1. Windows XP Home support up to 5 users in a single >network and my situation is using 4 workstations running >Windows XP home and 1 is using Win2K server, will this be >the reason ?

No, XP home allows 5 simultaneous connections. It doesn't matter how many machines you have in the network.

>2. I have even changed the computer name of the one >workstation that create problem to me but still it is >asking. So that it will not be the problem of user name >and password.

I'm not entirely clear what you mean.

>3. In the ActiveX directory of user and domain, I have add >the one workstation inside the computer but still asking, >I think I also do not understand what is the use of adding >computer inside the activeX directory user and domain, is >this for the management purpose only ?

Theres no point. You are running essentially a network within a workgroup, active directory is pretty pointless. With XP Pro or w2k they have to be in AD to be on the domain. You might aswell dump AD all together.

 

[Guest_imported]

ashpp is right. XP Home can't join a domain so the Active Directory list of accounts and passwords doesn't count here.

The XP Home machines still requires a password (even if it is a blank one) and wants to know who you are before you can access it. The machine is trying to validate your id/password against its own list.

 

[GlenJohnson]

Correct gents. XP home is almost worthless for networking period from what I've been told. I only tried it once, with a laptop, and when I plugged in my wireless nic, xp told me the nic had been unplugged. Took the nic, put it back in my 9 year old laptop running w2k pro, took off like a pro. Here's a piece of info from the following article.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,4662,00.asp

Here's the main obstacle to remote file access: Networking in the Home Edition of Windows XP is peer-to-peer, not domain-based. In the absence of a list of domain names, file permissions are limited to local user names, and those names are unique for each computer. For example, a user named Leah on a computer named Den has the username Den\Leah. But if Leah is accessing the den computer while logged on to the Kitchen system, she is Kitchen\Leah; she and Den\Leah are not recognized as the same user. There's no such thing as a networkwide user in a peer-to-peer network. For user permissions to work across a network, you need to have a global catalog of names, which is available only in domain-based networks.

Glen A. Johnson
Johnson Computer Consulting

http://www.johnsoncomputers.us

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