xp lan password

gobby

myself and a couple of my mates regularly play some network games. we also share all our mp3's etc.

problem is that when they try to access my machine they are asked for a password. now i never set a password so how can this be?? even more important, since no one knows the password, how do i get rid of it?

would it be possible to get around this by creating another account that they could log in to my machine through?

moridin

Try enabling the guest account?

jesus_thats_gre

Turn off simple file sharing under file options.

gobby

Turn off simple file sharing under file options.

would we still be able to share our files after this? is this a stupid question?

gobby

i will try out your suggestions on friday and let ye know if they work...

cheers,
gob.

gerryk

have you go this machine connected to the internet? be careful what you do with filesharing and security or you'll have some 14 year old 1337 h4x0r 0wn j00

LegacyUser

run an ftp server

gerryk

Originally posted by gobby
would it be possible to get around this by creating another account that they could log in to my machine through?

yup... that's what you need to do. Create an account... in the sharing options of the directory you want to share, set the permissions to allow this user only to have read access and you should be sorted.

gobby

have you go this machine connected to the internet?

nope. for exactly the reason u said! if we need to use the net we have another machine so we can go get what we need then disconnect from the lan and connect to the lan.

gerryk

get yourself a cheap crappy pentium box and use a tiny linux router/firewall setup. there are tons of easy to use ones on the net.