{"id":440,"date":"2008-05-18T13:55:48","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T12:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/archives\/440"},"modified":"2011-08-07T17:40:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T15:40:47","slug":"windows-xp-administrator-account-login-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/archives\/440","title":{"rendered":"Windows XP: Administrator account login failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure most of us hit this problem before when working with a workgroup client. I keep forgetting to change <strong>simple file sharing<\/strong> setting over and over. Most of my enterprise clients are sitting in a domain, but some will be workgroup clients. Prodcution or Process Control networks are commonly connected in a <strong>Workgroup <\/strong>setup. Today I am testing a remote installation of Symantec Antivirus 10.2 server and I hit this Administrator log on problem.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsXPAdministratoraccount_D238\/image_thumb.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"503\" height=\"415\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First I thought the password is wrong, tried again then I add the computer\\administrator but still no successful log on on this remote machine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"messageBox error icon\"><span>Logon failure: unknown name or bad password.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>I went back to my Windows XP virtual machine and checked the setting in Windows Explorer \/ Tools menu \/ Folder Options \/ View tab \/ and I then unchecked &#8220;Use simple file sharing (recommended)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsXPAdministratoraccount_D238\/image_3.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"384\" height=\"447\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I tried to connect again to the ADMIN$ share and this time it worked fine.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/304040#iframe\" target=\"_blank\">How to use the Simple File Sharing feature to share files in Windows XP<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure most of us hit this problem before when working with a workgroup client. I keep forgetting to change simple file sharing setting over and over. Most of my enterprise clients are sitting in a domain, but some will be workgroup clients. Prodcution or Process Control networks are commonly connected in a Workgroup setup. Today I am testing a remote installation of Symantec Antivirus 10.2 server and I hit this Administrator log on problem. First I thought the password is wrong, tried again then I add the computer\\administrator but still no successful log on on this remote machine. I went back to my Windows XP virtual machine and checked the setting in Windows Explorer \/ Tools menu \/ Folder Options \/ View tab \/ and I then unchecked &#8220;Use simple file sharing (recommended)&#8221;. I tried to connect again to the ADMIN$ share and this time it worked fine. References How to use the Simple File Sharing feature to share files in Windows XP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[374],"tags":[377,376,121,782,375],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-windows-xp","tag-account","tag-administrator","tag-issue","tag-windows","tag-xp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1883,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/1883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}