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Windows 98 Sharing Password Loss
I'm in charge of our small business network and we have lost a password for file sharing for one of our computers. The employee who set it never wrote it down and now no longer works for us. I can log on from my workstation because the password is remembered in my list, but I can't run a network backup of the hard drive because Retrospect requires me to type the password in. Any clues about what to do? I can't change the password in the control panels because we don't know the old one.
Jeff Janssen
WrightBuilt Construction
jeff@wrightbuiltremodel.co
Jeff Janssen
WrightBuilt Construction
jeff@wrightbuiltremodel.co
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simple
log onto the computer using any login that has read/write access to the computer
find file $.pwl (replace $ with the user name you dont remember password for)
delete the file found.
relogin, this time as the user whos .pwl file you deleted.
give login box any password you want, origanal is history
Shep
log onto the computer using any login that has read/write access to the computer
find file $.pwl (replace $ with the user name you dont remember password for)
delete the file found.
relogin, this time as the user whos .pwl file you deleted.
give login box any password you want, origanal is history
Shep
you can use Discover or similar tool to see what is the password (****) as it appears in your list.
You're going to need to change the share password from the machine that is sharing the folder. Then, all users accessing the share will need to input the new password on their next attempt to connect.
Give it a shot & let us know.
/ew