Re: 2000 to XP Connetion trouble.

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_nospam-comcast.net)
Date: 05/19/04 

Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 00:24:32 GMT

XP requires that you do not use a blank password for network access/logon. Also keep
in mind that passwords are case sensitive and try changing the password on the
account on the XP machine and trying again. You could also try enabling the guest
account on the XP machine temporarily to see if that allows you to get access
assuming the resource has everyone permissions. If you still can not get access as
guest, you may have a problem with incomparability in security options such as smb
signing or lan manager authentication level. Also make sure the built in XP firewall
is disabled making sure you have other firewall protection for the network. --- Steve

"T Barnes" <tbarnes@skizzmm.com> wrote in message
news:e9c001c43cf8$709a8fb0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I am having trouble connecting to an XP Pro machine from
> my Windows 2000 machine via "My Network Places".
>
> Both PC's are part of the same workgroup, and I can see the
> XP machine in the workgroup, but when I am prompted for a
> user name and password, I get the error "Incorrect
> Password or Unknown Username"... I've tried to use the
> regular user account name and password as well as
> the "Administrator" account and password.
> The "regular" user account is also a member of
> the "Administrators" group.