Hi there all,

I have a dead laptop (again) with WinXP Home on it. Plus a desktop wqith WinXP Pro.

I got knoppix up and running on the laptop - but cannot get a network sorted.

I am using static network addresses.

The machines can ping each other but when i try to connect using a smb share I get a requirement for the username and password. I have tried every combination of these i can think of yet the desktop still refuses the connection.

I created a user on the WinXP Pro desktop with the same usrname and pwd as the laptop running knoppix (i.e. usrnm: knoppix, pwd same as my root pwd). Still no joy - whenever I try to get a samba share it refuses saying incorrect username and password.

I found out about the knoppix-toram cheat and set this up on the desktop - so now i can get knoppix up and running on the desktop, then remove the disk and get it running on the laptop.

So now I had both machines running knoppix - "easy" I thought "now windoze will not refuse my connection. Since both machines are running knoppix they will network quicker than a rat out an aqueduct!"

Wrong - still the same message.

I must be doing something wrong which is very simple and I am sure I will kick mysaelf when some kind soul tells me what that is!

Yours in hope,

Fatcharlie.