Default Login & Password for Windows 2000?

[cormegaqbc]

HI,

does anyone know what the default username and default password when you have just installed windows 2000?

[mhayes]

Normally it's "administrator" and whatever password you assigned during the install.

[mosquito]

Unless you have a windows in another language (for example, with a french windows it's "administrateur", with a dutch windows it's "beheerder",...)

[WJWheels]

I would like to share win2k folders with other computers on the network. If I try to access the computer that is running win2k from another computer, it asks for a password. Nothing I type is correct. I do NOT require a password to log on to the win2k computer. How do I connect the other networked computers?
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WHOOPS! Never mind. Somehow, I had the "Guest" account disabled.

[mosquito]

The guest account is disabled by default to prevent unauthorised access from the network.

You can also create a batch file with the following command and put it in the startup folder

net use \\<server> "<password>" /user:<username>

Replace <server>, <password> and <username> by the values that apply to your system.

This prevents unauthorised access from other machines.

[WickedLittleSlaveBoy]

no no no, do not do that....

net use \\ /user:

leave out the password, that's too big of a security hole. just type it in when prompted.

you also can't use the /user flag from windows 9X machines.

[WJWheels]

Good info - thanks. I'm not really concerned with that in this instance. It's just my home network consisting of 3 and sometimes 4 pcs.

[mosquito]

But still not as big as enabling the guest account. I included it because it was specified that he didn't want to type the password.

[WickedLittleSlaveBoy]

I don't necessarily agree with that. true guest is going to have all the privileges "everyone" has, but if he's using the administrator username or another username with administrative rights, then he's giving away everything...even the admin shares. and the user account that 2000's installation creates to let you autologon has administrative rights, I believe. so, unless he's created another user account, bad news.

[Hpro]

May I mention that "administrator" is Administrator on win2k..

[mosquito]

On my machine, guest is disabled, everyone has NO permissions, and I made an account for remote access to my machine. This account has only read permissions on my shared folders, no permission on anything else (not even local logon or anything else) + I log everything this account does, so I have complete control of who logs on (the ones who have the batch file, + I'm sure that they only have access to the stuff I want)