New
#1
Win7 sees LAN but won't connect--asks for network password
I've read lots of posts & tutorials. The answer is probably out there someplace, but after a week of getting nowhere, I ask for help.
I have a home LAN set up as a WORKGROUP. In the wrkgrp is a W2K computer, a printer (have to go through the W2K system to get to it), and my laptop, with Win7.
The W2K computer sees and can access the Win7 shared files & folders.
The Win7 computer access's the internet through my LAN and router.
It discovers the W2K system and shows it as part of the LAN but when I try to access the W2K computer, authentication fails.
From the Win7 network directory, I click on the W2k computer.
I get a popup that asks for the Network password: enter the user name on the machine I am trying to access, enter the user password.
For information, the popup also indicates that the Win7 laptop is a member of a domain (the laptop's name).
I put in the username and pwd for the account on the W2K computer, but it won't connect. The popup returns, telling me what I entered was wrong. It tells me that the \\(domain name)\(user name) password failed.
I tried mapping to a drive on the W2K computer with its UNC, but get the same popup and the same failure.
I thought maybe the "network password" request meant enter the network name & password that I gave to the LAN in the router, but using those didn't let it authenticate, either.
I turned off the setting requring password authentication for connecting to other machines.
Since the Win7 machine came with Netbeui enabled, I re-enabled that on my W2K system, still no go.
I reset both systems to use TCP/IP instead of netbeui. --no luck, again. --I did have another Win7 computer (the mobo burnt up) set up to work only with TCP/IP. That computer connected to the W2K computer, just fine.
--I don't like the popup box telling me the Win7 laptop is a member of a domain when it is on a workgroup but don't know if that has an effect or not.--
Oh, I tried turning off/on the Win7's firewall.
Made certain no "Norton" stuff was running.
I also created "local," accounts with "user" rights on the W2K computer for the Win7 users; but didn't set any profiles for them. None of the above helped.
Soooo, will someone please go through this with me, find out what I missed, and get the Win7 computer to connect with the other computer on my LAN?
Thanks,
Bob