C_wilson
March 28th, 2006, 06:41 AM
Hello all,
I'm having some networking with XP issues.. A friend of mine has a small office network of 3 computers. They are all networked with a small D-link router that connects all 3 PC's, and a huge Lanier All in One Printer is also connected via ethernet.
These 3 Pc's are also all sharing this printer and a certain folder on the main computer that they use files from and make changes to. The main computer was running Windows 2000 Professional as the others were running Windows 98. As I said before, all PC's were having file/print sharing capabilties.
What I did was UPGRADE the main PC to XP Pro and the other two PCs were just too old, so I swapped them out with newer machines running XP Pro as well.
After the upgrade of the main machine, as it rebooted, it had several different usernames to choose from at the user select screen in XP. I assumed these were all the users of the previous network. I just selected the one that was the name of the Woman who used it (Angela). I immedietly ran the Network setup wizard and configured a new workgroup called "Allied Home" (this is a loan company in case anyone cares). I then made sure the Lanier printer still worked and suprisingly I didn't have to install the XP drivers to make it work . The printer worked fine. I then went to the other 2 PCs that had fresh copies of Xp installed and ran the network wizard on both of those.
So now, I've got my workgroup called "Allied Home" configured to where when you click on it you see all 3 PC's on the network.
Heres the problem! : When I try to map the other computers to the data folder in which they all need to share, it asks for a username and password to enter the main computer. Why is this? My friend assures me whoever set this up previously never password protected anything? She has no idea what the username or password could be? I have tried the same username that logs in and it just says invalid every time. I've tried directly connecting to the main PC by clicking on the icon for it as well as typing the file path in the "add a network place" option (\\angela\data) I'm mainly a hardware based computer person and I'm still learning about networking in all of the Windows software.
As of now the whole office is a mess because none of the PC's are working together properly without file/print sharing capabilities. The other problem is that when I try to set up the printer to work with the other 2 PC's I can't seem to connect it to them? I'm made sure it is a shared printer on the network but for some reason it won't browse to it? I didn't think the main computer having a password would matter since the printer isn't exactly connected to the main computer but to the router box. Is there a different method for making a printer work on a network if it is connected through a router rather than directly to one PC on the network? I just need to get everything back to the way it was while using the newly upgraded XP.
Any wisdom would be greatly appreciated.
Chris
I'm having some networking with XP issues.. A friend of mine has a small office network of 3 computers. They are all networked with a small D-link router that connects all 3 PC's, and a huge Lanier All in One Printer is also connected via ethernet.
These 3 Pc's are also all sharing this printer and a certain folder on the main computer that they use files from and make changes to. The main computer was running Windows 2000 Professional as the others were running Windows 98. As I said before, all PC's were having file/print sharing capabilties.
What I did was UPGRADE the main PC to XP Pro and the other two PCs were just too old, so I swapped them out with newer machines running XP Pro as well.
After the upgrade of the main machine, as it rebooted, it had several different usernames to choose from at the user select screen in XP. I assumed these were all the users of the previous network. I just selected the one that was the name of the Woman who used it (Angela). I immedietly ran the Network setup wizard and configured a new workgroup called "Allied Home" (this is a loan company in case anyone cares). I then made sure the Lanier printer still worked and suprisingly I didn't have to install the XP drivers to make it work . The printer worked fine. I then went to the other 2 PCs that had fresh copies of Xp installed and ran the network wizard on both of those.
So now, I've got my workgroup called "Allied Home" configured to where when you click on it you see all 3 PC's on the network.
Heres the problem! : When I try to map the other computers to the data folder in which they all need to share, it asks for a username and password to enter the main computer. Why is this? My friend assures me whoever set this up previously never password protected anything? She has no idea what the username or password could be? I have tried the same username that logs in and it just says invalid every time. I've tried directly connecting to the main PC by clicking on the icon for it as well as typing the file path in the "add a network place" option (\\angela\data) I'm mainly a hardware based computer person and I'm still learning about networking in all of the Windows software.
As of now the whole office is a mess because none of the PC's are working together properly without file/print sharing capabilities. The other problem is that when I try to set up the printer to work with the other 2 PC's I can't seem to connect it to them? I'm made sure it is a shared printer on the network but for some reason it won't browse to it? I didn't think the main computer having a password would matter since the printer isn't exactly connected to the main computer but to the router box. Is there a different method for making a printer work on a network if it is connected through a router rather than directly to one PC on the network? I just need to get everything back to the way it was while using the newly upgraded XP.
Any wisdom would be greatly appreciated.
Chris