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Windows workgroup computer requests password for shares

Asked by Labsy in Windows XP Operating System, WINS, Net BIOS and NetBEUI

Tags: shared folders, windows XP, networking, workgroup

Hi,

I faced a very annoying issue in a small WORKGROUP.

SITUATION
There are 6 Windows XP workstations in the office.
They are in simple WORKGROUP named "WORKGROUP".
Every user has "My Documents" folder shared for everybody else.
Quite simple.

WHAT WAS CHANGED
They asked me to rename all computers, because COMPUTER NAMES were old, named by previous employees, which are not there anymore. So I renamed, for example, copmuter named "Joe" to "George", "Mary" to "Joshua" and so on.
Then I removed all old SHORTCUSTS to favourites "My network places", so all new shortcuts were new.
That's all I did.

NOW, THE PROBLEM
Ever since this change, 4 of computers are OK, but the other 2 have problems.
Actually, when you browse FROM any of those 4 computers into WORKGROUP, you see ALL computers, listed by NEW names. That's OK.
But you can open only 4 computers to see their shares, while on 2 computers you cannot browse them.

WEIRD
When you click on either of these 2 computers in WORKGROUP, you get prompt for USERNAME and PASSWORD, but you can type in anything, but it does not work!!
Why is there prompt for username and password? Shares are opened for "Everyone", so it should let you in. Any why it does NOT accept any password?

WHAT I TRIED TO SOLVE:
- checked "Simple file sharing", set it to ENABLE and to DISABLE, but in neither case it helped
- cleared ARP table on all computers, ARP -d
- cleared DNS CACHE on all computers, IPCONFIG /flushdns
- cleared WINS cache on all computers, NBTSTAT -rR
- changed DHCP automatic IP to static, and to another IP
- removed "Client for Windows networking" and "File and printer sharing" protocols from TCP/IP, and reinstalled them back after reboot
- removed network adapter from device manager, and installed it back after reboot
- tried to access computer via IP \\192.168.1.117\ or via NetBIOS name \\Joshua\ but nothing works
- I uninstalled NOD32 antivirus, rebooted, but nothing
- stopped and disabled WINDOWS FIREWALL, but no help
- I created new folder, and created new \\SHARE...but still nothing
- I checked SHARE and NTFS permissions on shared folders, but no, nothing
- all computers are on XP SP2

I am out of ideas.
It was all working fine before I renamed the computer.
Any idea how to enable SHARES again?
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