Network password

[tightlines]

I have a dozen older computers with Pentium 100, Win 95, that were donated to our organization (non-profit homeless supportive housing). They used to be in a state office and all have network cards. Some require you to log on to Windows, but nobody at the state office has the faintest idea what the passwords are or were. These computers apparently had been sitting around for a while. If I take out the nic cards, the logon goes away, and I can get into Windows, but I would like to network some of the computers in a multi-bed unit so the residents can share an Internet connection. Not sure if that is possibel with Win 95 for one, and how can I get rid of the passwords?

[whocares]

You can just hit enter to get into Win95, bypassing the password. You can also delete all the *.pwl files (in the windows directory structure somewhere - been a long time) Just boot to dos (hit F5) and dir *.pwl /s to find the location. Next time windows starts it will let you set up new users and passwords

[DVNT1]

Delete the *.pwl files in the c:\Windows directory (typically) to remove username/passwords.


Often with Win9x you can enter any username/password and it will let you in. If not, it is normally configured for a domain with a mandatory logon requirement. This can be removed by going into the Network Properties and making the appropriate chagnes.


edit -> I type a little slow, bascially what he said. :)

[tightlines]

Apparently it is a network domain password, because trying to bypass it by entering "Enter" or "Cancel" would not work, nor would numerous usernames/password attempts that the state people suggested.

I will attempt the *.pwl method and advise you all of the results.

Thanks.

[Sterling_Aug]

You may want to save yourself the aggravation and reinstall Windows on the machines. You can get the network set up the way you need it then.

[tightlines]

These are older machines: 100 MH cpu's with Win 95 and 8-16 MB of RAM, so I would have to re-install Win 95 i would think. Do you think I could bump them up to 98? I was going to reformat and start from scratch, but some of the machines do not have CDROM's, so I was trying to install the latter from Windows, but couldn't get in; couldn't even get as far as making a boot disc. So I'm scrounging around for an old Win 95 boot disc with a CDROM drive on it. I couldn't get anywhere trying to install Win 95 with a Win 98 boot disc for some reason.

[rextex]

If you have an NT disk around some of them contain Windows 95 full version.
If not go to this link:
http://icdweb.cc.purdue.edu/~schroedc/download.html
Where at the bottom you'll see MS-DOS 6.22.