One networked computer can't network

[Bulldog]

My three computers have been networked using a Linksys BEFSR41 V.2 router and a linksys 5 port hub and everything works great. My main computer, a few days ago prompts me for a password as windows starts. Never done that before but I didn't enter one and click cancel and Windows starts. Now everytime windows starts it prompts me for a password. I click cancel and it starts. I just tried to access the other computers on the network and it wouldn't let me. It prompts me to use Windows network troubleshooter and I did with no luck. My computer is accessable thru the other computers but they aren't accessable to mine. I checked everything in network configuration and everything is exactly the same in all three computers. It shows "entire network" icon but that's all it shows in mine the other computers show everything correctly. I'm assuming I did this(I'm the only one who uses the computer) but I'll be damned if I can figure out what I've done. The workgroup is named the same and my computer is open to them so it has to be me.

[This message has been edited by Bulldog (edited 04-22-2001).]

[JohnatFL]

Need to put password in so the other computers can use the network. It should have always asked for a password to connect to network

[Bulldog]

Never did before and since it started I can't access the network. This is a home network.

[bwkaz]

Somehow, the password got set (my *guess* is that someone set up a screen saver password), now Windows is asking for it. If you hit Cancel in that box, then about 95% of the time, Windows will not network. To get it to not ask for a password, go into your display properties, the screen saver tab, and Change Password. Type in the old one, and leave both new boxes blank. Reboot and it should be OK. Now, if it does ever ask you for a password on boot, LEAVE IT BLANK and hit OK. This will set the password to nothing (unless someone else set the password to something, then you'll need their password to go back to the screen saver thing and set it back).

When the password is blank, it won't ask for one (unless you do a "log off..." from the Start menu, but that's different).

Bryan

[Bulldog]

I don't have a screen saver at all and I'd try to hit ok without putting in a password and I'd get a popup that said please put in password and hit ok. The only way that I could rid myself of the password popup was to hit cancel. I don't get this at all. I don't have log-off on my start menu either. I think it has something to do with XTEQ which I downloaded a few weeks ago. I must have changed something without realizing it. I got rid of the password prompt by using XTEQ and going into network and checking "auto login" so I'm pretty sure it has something to do with that prog. Thanks for your help if you have any more ideas please post them and I'll give it a shot. For now I'll try to find out what happened.

[Bulldog]

I fixed it. How? I restored my registry from 4/17/01. I set my max number of backups in scanreg.ini to 10 so I could go back far enough. Whatever I did I've seemed to "undid" it. I went back to scanreg.ini and changed it to 15 max backup. I screw things up alot. Thanks for trying.