I used to be able to access anyone at all on our network from my computer just fine, but since the weekend every time I try to access one particular computer on the network from my machine, it continually asks for a username and password.
We don’t have any security passwords or anything between each other on the network, plus I can be accessed, and everyone else can be accessed by me, just fine. Everyone else can access the computer in question fine too - it’s only me that is having this trouble.
We made no changes to our computers that we know of, it’s just started happening all of a sudden.
We alll have XP Pro, Service Pack 1, TweakUI, and it’s a pretty cool connection. However we do not have a network administrator or anything like that, beyond a few mildly geeky people like myself.
If you don’t have a network administrator, it’s unlikely that you have a central network policy or policy server to keep everything in spec. I don’t know about XP, but it’s certainly easy enough for a user to apply an access control like a password in other versions. In the past, when I had networked machines without passwords at home, I occassionally got warnings about openly shared resources (probably from applications, not the OS, though I don’t recall the specifics).
If you don’t have login passwords (or you use blank passwords), any user is effectively an administrator, and can apply a password, either for their own purposes or in response to a warning. Can you check the machine in question? If there’s still no login password, you can probably turn off the sharing password.
Thanks for your suggestions, but neother were any help. There are no passwords anywhere across the whole LAN, and there never has been. I can’t figure out why my computer is the only one unable to access the other machine, when it worked just fine before the weekend.