neighborhood networks

I have a small home network set up,
three desk tops, and one laptop.
How is it possible to verify the password on one of the machines? and how is it possible to change the network login password? (i think my wife logged in, not knowing what she was doing and saw the "password request" and filled it in, thinking it was like for her AOL account)

 

Unless you are running a domain (unlikely - you'd need either NT4/2K/2003 server to do that) you don't really have a network logon password. Just the logon password you may or may not have on the individual PCs.

How is it possible to verify the password on one of the machines?
If you logon with a password and it works, that was the password. If not, it wasn't. Was that what you meant?

Per Rule #6 you won't get any information on here about bypassing or defeating passwords. Otherwise, if I mis-understood, please clarify.

 

re: rule #6

it was not my intention to violate any rules, i was asking because of a legit issue on my home network.
if i don't log on when presented with the network log on at the begining of boot up i can't see or share data within the home network machines.

 

What operating systems do you have running?

No problems describing how you need to set things up for network sharing using passwords. But it varies with different OS versions.

The things we won't do are tell you how to get around existing password protected PCs or data or how to crack out a password you don't know.

 

one desktop has 98SE, one has ME, and the laptop is 98SE.

I am refering to the "log-on" pop-up that comes up with the boot up process. not the windows log-in.
if i don't have the right password, i can't see the other system in the neighborhood network.
The other "odd" thing is that i can see the ME PC, sort of..... i can see it's printer, but not it's files. and i believe that i have it set up for file sharing!

 

Any PC you want to appear in network neighborhood will have to have something shared and all you will see is the share. Printer(s), file(s), folder(s), etc.

As a test to make sure things are set up correctly (or mostly correctly) try this.

Make sure PC-1 is set up for file & printer sharing and then create a share with a share name of share1 (substitute your actual PC and name the share to suit yourself).

From PC-1, do start~run~\\PC-1\share1 and you should see that share open in a windows explorer session on PC-2.

It is possible to have that work and still not see PC-1 in network neighborhood from PC-2 but in that case, we've narrowed the possibilities quite a bit.