Security Settings

[rkeslar]

I have 3 computers on a home network. 1 runs Vista Basic( wireless laptop)1runs Vista Ultimate and 1 runs Vista Home Premium.The latter 2 are wired. My router is a Belkin Wireless G Mimo. Everything is fine except I have to turn off password protection for the computers to be able to access files on each other. Windows diagnostics says something about DNS Settings. Any Ideas how to fix this?

[Erik]

You mean needing to have password protected file sharing?

You need to have identical accounts on all of the computers (same username and password). DNS will never really work because you have no local DNS server for your internal network. You would be using netbios for naming.

[rkeslar]

Everything is the same in all computers. The computers show up on the networking and sharing page but when I click on a computer I get the login screen and type in my name and password I get a windows cannot log in notice. With password protection turned off it works fine. Being that its a wireless network I am afraid to have the password protection turned off.

[Ghost_Hacker]

If you get a login window when trying to access a shared folder. I would check again that the account you use to login to computer A (for example) does have a duplicate account on computer B (same account name and password as mentioned before by Eric). Also check that they have the proper permissions to access your shared content. As a trouble shooting step you could add the accounts to the administrator group and see if access works then.

The DNS error would point to Windows not being able to find a login server. This error would be valid if you have a Windows domain setup. (DNS is used in a windows domain to find "services" like domain controllers)

Hope this helps :)

[rkeslar]

Thanks for all the info. Somehow the user name in the user accounts was different than it was when I ran aida 32. I made the corrections and works well now with password protection.Sorry for appearing to be so stupid but sometimes we cant see the forest for the trees.