Re: Peer2Peer sharing - why password needed?

From: Benn Wolff (Benn_Wolff_at_REMOVEhotmail.com)
Date: 09/16/03 

Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 01:45:55 -0700

logon as Administrator when asked ,

"Hadi" <HSukirman@_nospam_hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OvIEzNPfDHA.2236@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hi sorry this is beginner question: We connected two Win2k Prof as P2P and
> would like to share a folder. Why do we always have to provide a UserName
&
> PW? We don't want to have any kind of security like that.
> Everyone is LocAdmin and Everyone has permissions on the share as well on
> the file system. What did we forget?
> Greetings.

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