Accessing WinME Shares From XP

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"huddie" <paul_anderson@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Hi. I'm having trouble getting XP to authenticate and browse ME
> shares.
>
> We have a peer-to-peer workgroup network with the following machines:
>
> 1. Windows ME, with Internet Connection Sharing, etc., configured
> using the Home Networking Wizard. This provides Internet access and
> IP addresses to the rest of the machines on the LAN.
>
> 2. Windows ME (DHCP client).
>
> 3. Windows XP Professional laptop, simple file sharing, SP1 (DHCP
> client).
>
> All connect to a 10Mbit hub and can ping and connect to each other.
> The ME machines can browse shares on the XP machine. However, when I
> browse to ME shares from the XP machine it keeps repeatedly asking for
> the password as if I'm putting in the wrong one. I'm not. I can go
> straight to machine 1 and browse and authenticate to the ME share on
> machine 2 using exactly the same password. I can also do the same
> vice-versa (i.e., from 2 to 1).
>
> Can you help ? I think this is a problem with XP using a different
> authentication protocol or technique than ME.
>
> --
> Paul Anderson

In article <786a587a.0401041132.2959abc6@posting.google.com >,
paul_anderson@ntlworld.com (huddie) wrote:

>Hi. I'm having trouble getting XP to authenticate and browse ME
>shares.
>
>We have a peer-to-peer workgroup network with the following machines:
>
>1. Windows ME, with Internet Connection Sharing, etc., configured
>using the Home Networking Wizard. This provides Internet access and
>IP addresses to the rest of the machines on the LAN.
>
>2. Windows ME (DHCP client).
>
>3. Windows XP Professional laptop, simple file sharing, SP1 (DHCP
>client).
>
>All connect to a 10Mbit hub and can ping and connect to each other.
>The ME machines can browse shares on the XP machine. However, when I
>browse to ME shares from the XP machine it keeps repeatedly asking for
>the password as if I'm putting in the wrong one. I'm not. I can go
>straight to machine 1 and browse and authenticate to the ME share on
>machine 2 using exactly the same password. I can also do the same
>vice-versa (i.e., from 2 to 1).
>
>Can you help ? I think this is a problem with XP using a different
>authentication protocol or technique than ME.

I've seen that behavior between XP Pro and ME too, Huddie: sometimes,
one of my XP computers can access a passworded share on ME, but at the
same time another XP computer can't. Here's a possible solution:

1. Remove any stored password for the ME share:
a. Go to Control Panel | User Accounts.
b. Click your account.
c. Under "Related Tasks", click "Manage my network passwords".
d. If the ME computer's name appears in the list of passwords,
click it and then click Remove.

2. Log off and log back on.

3. Try accessing the share again.

If that doesn't solve the problem, run Net Watcher on ME, disconnect
any users who it shows have access to the share, then try accessing it
again from XP Pro.

To install Net Watcher, go to Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs |
Windows Setup | System Tools. To run it, either click Start |
Programs | Accessories | System Tools | Net Watcher or click Start |
Run, type "netwatch" in the box, and click OK.
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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Paul,
I am having the same problem, but with machines running
98SE and 95. I can see all computers on the network; I
can use the 95/98 machines to access shared files on the
XP computer, but when I'm at the XP machine and attempt
to access anything on the other computers, it prompts me
for a password (I have passwords set up on those other
machines to protect the files/drives). Even though I
enter the correct passwords, nothing happens...it takes
forever and I end up cancelling it.

Paul Hambleton

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi. I'm having trouble getting XP to authenticate and

browse ME

>shares.
>
>We have a peer-to-peer workgroup network with the

following machines:

>
>1. Windows ME, with Internet Connection Sharing, etc.,

configured

>using the Home Networking Wizard. This provides

Internet access and

>IP addresses to the rest of the machines on the LAN.
>
>2. Windows ME (DHCP client).
>
>3. Windows XP Professional laptop, simple file sharing,

SP1 (DHCP

>client).
>
>All connect to a 10Mbit hub and can ping and connect to

each other.

>The ME machines can browse shares on the XP machine.

However, when I

>browse to ME shares from the XP machine it keeps

repeatedly asking for

>the password as if I'm putting in the wrong one. I'm

not. I can go

>straight to machine 1 and browse and authenticate to the

ME share on

>machine 2 using exactly the same password. I can also

do the same

>vice-versa (i.e., from 2 to 1).
>
>Can you help ? I think this is a problem with XP using

a different

>authentication protocol or technique than ME.
>
>--
>Paul Anderson
>.
>