XP PRO Workgroups and Shared Drives

Heres what I have:
Desktop: XP Pro SP1
TCP/IP
NETBUI
Laptop: XP Pro SP1
TCP/IP
NETBUI
Linksys router with static IP's
Both belong to same workgroup
Both have same subnet

I want to be able to access shared drives on both machines from both machines without password protection.

Question1:
why are the sharing and securities property sheets different on each machine?


Question2:
When I access the laptop through network neighborhood on the desktop, I can walk right into shared drives. When I try to go the other way, it prompts for admin password, then doesn't accept it. (yes, the password is right). what gives?

Question3:
Something I just noticed. The desktop has a "Windows" folder at the root, while the laptop has a "WINNT" folder at the root. Both machine are using NTFS and the OS's were installed the same way(as far as I can remeber). Why is this?

SIDENOTE:
the laptop was once a domain client, but is now only part of a workgroup.

Thanks
-Darren

 

Couldn't get your link to open but do have some suggestions and a possible answer to the Windows/WINNT thing.

For allowing easy access:

- Unless you have security reasons for not doing so, log onto both PCs using the same username/password.

- Set the administrator account to the same name and password on both PCs and then "take ownership" of the root folder on each drive. It should push down to ownership of all-sub folders.

For a quick cure to the password thing until you do the above (or if you never want to), assuming your machines are named PC1 & PC2 and the you have an account Admin on each with administrative rights,

When PC1 tries to connect to a share and is asked for username/password, put in

PC2/Admin and the password

As to the name of the windows folder, my guess would be that the one with WINNT was an upgrade from NT4 or 2K because the windows folder there was named WINNT by default.