I am establishing a workgroup involving two machines running XP-Pro. I did
install NetBuei in both computers, and My Documents is Shared with Simple
Network File Sharing turned off. I am administrator on both machines
however no password is set in either-the machines just log right in to
windows.

Even though each computer I can't access files, getting an Access Denied
message.

Do I need to set a password for each machine?

-michael

Yes, or you need to modify the Registry. Click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT Go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Ls a

Look in the right pane for "limitblankpassworduse". By default, this value is set to 1. Double click it and change it to 0 (zero). This will allow blank passwords for things other than logon. However, this creates a huge security hole, as anyone who can get your username and gain access to your system, locally or remotely will be able to do anything you can do.

--
Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display\Security
Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com
--------------------------------
Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
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"NetNews" <jherringshaw@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:ODQ6f.536$Rl1.14@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink .net...
>I am establishing a workgroup involving two machines running XP-Pro. I did
> install NetBuei in both computers, and My Documents is Shared with Simple
> Network File Sharing turned off. I am administrator on both machines
> however no password is set in either-the machines just log right in to
> windows.
>
> Even though each computer I can't access files, getting an Access Denied
> message.
>
> Do I need to set a password for each machine?
>
> -michael
>
>
>
>

Hey! I assigned a password to each computer and that did it ( after
disabling Norton Internet Security)... Thank you very much.
-michael
"Doug Knox MS-MVP" <dknox@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:%23shjQMA2FHA.2008@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
Yes, or you need to modify the Registry. Click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT
Go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Ls a

Look in the right pane for "limitblankpassworduse". By default, this value
is set to 1. Double click it and change it to 0 (zero). This will allow
blank passwords for things other than logon. However, this creates a huge
security hole, as anyone who can get your username and gain access to your
system, locally or remotely will be able to do anything you can do.

--
Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart
Display\Security
Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com
--------------------------------
Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
--------------------------------
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Unsolicited e-mail is not answered.

"NetNews" <jherringshaw@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:ODQ6f.536$Rl1.14@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink .net...
>I am establishing a workgroup involving two machines running XP-Pro. I did
> install NetBuei in both computers, and My Documents is Shared with Simple
> Network File Sharing turned off. I am administrator on both machines
> however no password is set in either-the machines just log right in to
> windows.
>
> Even though each computer I can't access files, getting an Access Denied
> message.
>
> Do I need to set a password for each machine?
>
> -michael
>
>
>
>

You're welcome :-)

--
Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display\Security
Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com
--------------------------------
Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
--------------------------------
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Unsolicited e-mail is not answered.

"mhobbs" <jherringshaw@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:RDS6f.566$Rl1.44@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink .net...
> Hey! I assigned a password to each computer and that did it ( after
> disabling Norton Internet Security)... Thank you very much.
> -michael
> "Doug Knox MS-MVP" <dknox@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:%23shjQMA2FHA.2008@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Yes, or you need to modify the Registry. Click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT
> Go to:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Ls a
>
> Look in the right pane for "limitblankpassworduse". By default, this value
> is set to 1. Double click it and change it to 0 (zero). This will allow
> blank passwords for things other than logon. However, this creates a huge
> security hole, as anyone who can get your username and gain access to your
> system, locally or remotely will be able to do anything you can do.
>
> --
> Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart
> Display\Security
> Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
> http://www.dougknox.com
> --------------------------------
> Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro
> http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
> --------------------------------
> Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
> Unsolicited e-mail is not answered.
>
> "NetNews" <jherringshaw@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:ODQ6f.536$Rl1.14@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink .net...
>>I am establishing a workgroup involving two machines running XP-Pro. I did
>> install NetBuei in both computers, and My Documents is Shared with Simple
>> Network File Sharing turned off. I am administrator on both machines
>> however no password is set in either-the machines just log right in to
>> windows.
>>
>> Even though each computer I can't access files, getting an Access Denied
>> message.
>>
>> Do I need to set a password for each machine?
>>
>> -michael
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>