Computer A gets Connect To Box when trying to connect to Computer B

[DJ_Evergreen]

Hey All.

When I try to access one of my PC's from any of my machines, I get the connect to box (see figure 1) asking me to login with an account. Of course, when I type in a correct username and pass it lets me in, but I don't want to authenticate to login to this PC.

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Figure 1

Does anyone know how to turn this off? First let me tell you what I've tried so far. My firewall is off on both PCs. Also the guest account is enabled. Local Security Policy is set to allow Everyone to connect to this machine from the network. I can't think of anything else to check.

Also, anyone that DOES know how to configure this setup, please let me know. I'd like to put this on some other computers.

Thanks to everyone for your help!
Nathan

[kryyst]

1st how are you trying to connect to the machine?

If you are just trying to do file sharing right click on the share map it to a drive letter on your machine then when you put in your creds tell it to map it permanently and you won't have to do this each time. Alternately you can make a bat file that maps the drive through net use and have it run at boot to map all your drives.

If you are trying to take control of the machine through Remote Desktop, then you'll have to log in each time. No way around it, a side from making a script to do it automatically for you.

[DJ_Evergreen]

Maybe I wasn't clear in my first post... I'll see if I can explain it better.

I am not trying to map a share, or remotely connecting to my pc. I get the error when trying to view the shares on the PC... I go into My Network Places and then Click View Workgroup Computers. All the computers in my workgroup appear (I'm not connected to a domain). I can click on any computer name from every computer on the network and see the shares without it asking for a username and password EXCEPT when I try to access this one computer. As soon as I click on the computer (before I even get to seeing the shares) it prompts with that connect to box asking me for a username and password.

I know that it is possible to turn it on and off (because my other pcs don't do this, except this one!) but I don't know how to turn it off. If anyone knows how please let me know.

[kryyst]

You don't have sharing setup correctly and/or don't have a tied in common user account on that machine.