I set up a shared folder in my office, but it sometimes requires a username and password...

How to turn power off, or find the user name and password? No one in the office is very technical interest, took me about a week to find a way to make the record! Computers are old, and due to changes in staff all original usernames and passwords probably belonging to someone is no longer with the company.

Help!

It lacks a lot of useful info, but I'll make a lot of assumptions...  First, I'll assume that you share a folder on a Windows XP computer and not a network (NAS) storage device.  Secondly, I will assume that this XP machine not use XP Home and XP Pro.  Finally, I'll assume that "Simple file sharing" has been disabled on this machine.

In those circumstances, the rules allowing to authenticate the sharing machine go something like this:

  1. If the serving machine file has the same username and password as the user, then the connection is established without command prompt and the user authenticates as himself and has appropriate access
  2. If the machine portion of the file has the same user name, but the password is not the same, the connection is refused.
  3. If there is no user on the service machine, and that the guest account is active (and not passworded), then the user authenticate as 'Guest' with no other guests.
  4. If the 'Guest' user is not active on the file-hosting of the machine, then a username / password screen appears for a valid identification for the host computer.

So, it would seem that sometimes you are down to #4.  So to avoid this, make sure that something in steps 1, 2 or 3 is true.  Note that if Simple file sharing is enabled on the file serving machine, then all connections to authenticate as a 'Guest' account - which implies that all people will always connect in the same way what is expected by your 'sometimes' in the subject line.

HTH,
JW

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