Network mapped drive

[zeus68]

I disabled the Guest account and also renamed it to something else for security purposes. I have two pc's networked but now when I try to map a network drive it asks me for password but when I put the username and the passowrd it won't accept it. Any ideas?

 

[DAVIDNGUYEN98]

That is XP .If all ur PC's are XP then it will be perfect but you have
mix mode so make sure u have absolutely an unique account on every machine,I mean same username same password on all PC you have include the XPthen u can go to XP and go to user&group
and add user from other two PC to XP then u will be OK.
Good luck

 

[LNCPapa]

Try this:
Run GPEdit.msc
Goto - Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > Security Option
Scroll down to - Network Access: Sharing and security model for local accounts
Double click it and change it to Classic - reboot.

Lemme know if that works - not 100% sure that it will though.

LNCPapa

 

[Phantasm66]

Its helpful if the two machines are in the same workgroup.

also, you can use the format

computername\username

to specific that you mean an account on the other machine.

a really good trick is to create an account on each machine that has the same username and password on each, and then when you access shares or network mapped drives on either, you will NOT be asked for a password at all.