An operating system introduced in 2001 from Microsoft's Windows family of operating systems, the previous version of Windows being Windows Me. Microsoft called the release its most important product since Windows 95. Along with a redesigned look and feel to the user interface, the new operating system is built on the Windows 2000 kernel, giving the user a more stable and reliable environment than previous versions of Windows. Windows XP comes in two version, Home and Professional.

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question by Yash_Kumar | Moderate

Ok, In windows 2000 whenever I wanted to network over to another one of my win2k machines to transfer files I would do this: //machinename/c$
Then it would, naturally, ask me for username and password.
I would input the admin username and password for that machine and no problem!
I have recently upgraded both of my machines to XP. Now when I try the same routine, It won't let me use administrator to log on! This has been frustrating me! Is there a way to log log on to the hidden shares of an XP machine the way I used to in 2k? Thanks!

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reply by Abhishek Chatterjee

Although it should accept your admin username pass, you can try activating your Guest user account.

That lets people access public resources without authentication.
Also check your sharing permissions.

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