I have several computers in my home connected through a router. All machines are 
running XP Pro. Two are SP2 and the other is SP3. I need to access files between 
the machines but all I get is headaches. I get access denied, or password required, 
etc, etc. I have sharing enabled, no firewalls, no passwords set up. Yet no matter 
what I do I can't access files between the machines. Does anyone know how I can completely 
disable whatever security or other obstacles that would prevent my having completely 
unrestricted access between the machines?
Thanks for any advice.
PS. Please no lectures on what a bad idea this is. I am alone and the only user. 
Nobody else has access and the one machine that is connected to the internet is well 
protected from outside attacks.

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re: How remove all security restrictions on a LAN Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:11 pm Posted by Adam Bradley (7821 messages posted) How is the network setup hardware wise? All computers in the same workgroup? Can they ping each other? There are lots of things that could be in play here. On Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 7:42 pm, David40 wrote: >I have several computers in my home connected through a router. All machines are >running XP Pro. Two are SP2 and the other is SP3. I need to access files between >the machines but all I get is headaches. I get access denied, or password required, >etc, etc. I have sharing enabled, no firewalls, no passwords set up. Yet no matter >what I do I can't access files between the machines. Does anyone know how I can completely >disable whatever security or other obstacles that would prevent my having completely >unrestricted access between the machines? >Thanks for any advice. >PS. Please no lectures on what a bad idea this is. I am alone and the only user. >Nobody else has access and the one machine that is connected to the internet is well >protected from outside attacks. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How remove all security restrictions on a LAN Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:27 pm Posted by David40 (54 messages posted) Yes all on the same work group. Since I posted this I did some checking around and discovered the following command from the DOS prompt. "control userpasswords2" From here I discovered I could turn off all password requirements for all users, and set the automatic log-in. Also, it seems it's best to bypass the Network Wizard and just enable sharing. Apparently the Wizard sets a bunch of security safeguards in place by default, which is what I do not want. This seems to have opened up communications between two of the machines. I have not tried the others yet, but I think I stumbled onto the keys I needed. Thanks On Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:11 pm, Adam Bradley wrote: >How is the network setup hardware wise? All computers in the same workgroup? Can >they ping each other? There are lots of things that could be in play here. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How remove all security restrictions on a LAN Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 11:57 pm Posted by MartinM (5115 messages posted) Glad its sorted. In general, creating network drives is the easier way to set up and access files on other PCs. Just go into Windows Explorer, click on Map Network Drive and take it from there . . . [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How remove all security restrictions on a LAN Friday, July 3, 2009 at 4:06 am Posted by David40 (54 messages posted) Thanks for that tip. I always wondered what that was for. On Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 11:57 pm, MartinM wrote: > >Glad its sorted. In general, creating network drives is the easier way to set up >and access files on other PCs. > >Just go into Windows Explorer, click on Map Network Drive and take it from there >. . . > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How remove all security restrictions on a LAN Friday, July 3, 2009 at 1:04 pm Posted by Crash Override (2164 messages posted) When you log in to the machines, are you using the same ID on each of them? Regards, Crash Override, MCP On Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 7:42 pm, David40 wrote: >I have several computers in my home connected through a router. All machines are >running XP Pro. Two are SP2 and the other is SP3. I need to access files between >the machines but all I get is headaches. I get access denied, or password required, >etc, etc. I have sharing enabled, no firewalls, no passwords set up. Yet no matter >what I do I can't access files between the machines. Does anyone know how I can completely >disable whatever security or other obstacles that would prevent my having completely >unrestricted access between the machines? >Thanks for any advice. >PS. Please no lectures on what a bad idea this is. I am alone and the only user. >Nobody else has access and the one machine that is connected to the internet is well >protected from outside attacks. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How remove all security restrictions on a LAN Sunday, July 5, 2009 at 12:14 pm Posted by David40 (54 messages posted) Each one had it's own different way of logging in, but with my new discovery I was able to set up each one of them to log in automatically as the Administrator and without having to enter any passwords or select any users. On Friday, July 3, 2009 at 1:04 pm, Crash Override wrote: >When you log in to the machines, are you using the same ID on each of them? > > > > Regards, >Crash Override, MCP > >alt="Get Firefox!" title="Get Firefox!" src="http://sfx-images.mozilla.org/affiliates/Buttons/88x31/get.gif"/> [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum