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sheldondsouza
September 3rd, 2006, 10:30 AM
Hi we have a workgroup at our department which is isolated from the others.
The Five of them are under one group called POTD. Now all of them can ping each other and all can be seen under network places.

However 2 of them called MOH and EIC have a problem. When in network place choose them, the dialog box for the username is disabled and a /guest is in the username file. The password when entered does not work. The rest of the other computers are just fine. They are all manual addressess.

Before this i formated MOH and since then the problem comes. All computers can connect to MOh except EIC. Any ideas how to solve this.

For the workgroup, i created the same users (proper case) and proper passwords. Delted them and recreated on these 2 pcs but no luck

:cry2:

Please HElLP!!
z1p
September 3rd, 2006, 02:35 PM
What version of windows are you running on the machines in the workgroup? How many are machines are running the computer browser service?
sheldondsouza
September 3rd, 2006, 05:26 PM
All of the computers are running Windows XP SP2

Regarding the browser service, I checked it on EIC, not sure about the rest though will check and get back to you.
sheldondsouza
September 4th, 2006, 05:49 PM
Ok checked again and all the computers are runnning the browser service. All of them can connect.

EG. EIC can connect to the rest except MOH and vice versa.
sheldondsouza
September 4th, 2006, 05:52 PM
Can ping them EIC pings MOH and vice versa. However today when on EIC and click on MOH (it tell you have no permissions) and on MOH and click On EIC it comes with the guest stuff. EIC uses POTD3 as a computer administrator and has POTD,POTD2,POTD4,POTD5 on it with pass: 123.
While MOH uses POTD as computer admin and has POTD2,POTD3,POTD4,POTD5, on it with pass 123.
z1p
September 5th, 2006, 12:38 PM
All of the computers are running Windows XP SP2

Regarding the browser service, I checked it on EIC, not sure about the rest though will check and get back to you.

XP home or PRO?

You are best off running the browser service on 2 or 3 of the machines, but I don't think it would be causing this problem.
sheldondsouza
September 6th, 2006, 04:57 AM
Its XP Pro.

This may be a dumb question but all except MOH has simple file sharing off. Is that the cause?
Archangel122184
September 6th, 2006, 01:37 PM
Simple File sharing is likely the cause. Simple file sharing foces defaults to be used on shares (permissions, etc). One of those defaults is forcing the use of the guest account to authenticate on the shares. If the user trying to access the remote machine exists on the remote machine then you might get this error because of conflicting authorizations.
z1p
September 6th, 2006, 07:26 PM
Also, all the machines should have the same setting for 'simple file sharing'. Either on or off that is up to you.
sheldondsouza
September 7th, 2006, 10:15 AM
:happy:

Yup that was the cause just removed it on MOH and it worked.

Thanks A LOT!