re: Question about 'Why can't I get the Direct-Cable Connection to work?'
Wednesday, March 5, 2003 at 11:47 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by khschenk
(1 messages posted)
Thanks for the info. How do I add the user name and password? XP keeps asking me
for both when attempting to connect as guest to my Win 98 machine.
Thanks.
--Kurt
On Wednesday, October 30, 2002 at 9:19 pm, Luke Douglas wrote:
>Direct cable networking can be tricky. I suspect that you do not have the host
setup
>properly. You have to add the user name and password that you will allow access
>via the incoming connections. This must match the login user name and password
that
>either is logged into the guest computer or at the very least, you manually type
>in when you connect.
>
>In addition, you must ensure that there are shared resources on the host, such as
>a folder. If not, then there will be nothing to share and it won't show up on your
>guest computer.
>
>There are differences between Win98, WinNT and WinXP. I found that XP was fairly
>simple, once you did all of the configuration changes. I used the network mapping
>to map directly to the host folder I wanted to share and it connected with no problem.
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