Choose Start ➪ Settings ➪ Printers. The Printers dialog box appears, as shown in

Part III ✦ Working with Networked Computers

3. You can change the password, choose another picture for the logon, or work in your

address book.

4. Click the X to close the dialog box.

For information about logging on to your Linux machine, see the documentation for your specific distribution. Understanding usernames Your username is the name by which you’re known to your computer andor on the network. You might use your first name, a nickname, or some other identifier. You can use any combi- nation of letters and numbers; uppercase, lowercase, or initial caps; and even spaces within the name. Windows 98 stores each user’s unique identification information in a password list PWL file. The name of the PWL file is the username plus the PWL extension, such as Plumlsj.pwl or Hugh.pwl. The file is stored in the C:\Windows directory. A PWL file contains a user’s passwords for various programs in Windows, including the following: ✦ Resources protected by share-level security, such as a folder on another network com- puter and the password you use to access that folder ✦ Internet Explorer and e-mail program passwords ✦ Any passwords for clientserver networks, including NT Server and NetWare networks, but not primary logon passwords The passwords in a PWL file are encrypted, or scrambled in a code format, so that no one can read them. If a user on the network forgets his or her logon password, you always can delete that user’s PWL file. The file is re-created when the user logs on again; however, the user also will have to enter passwords for a while until the file is totally rebuilt. Deleting the PWL file doesn’t delete the user, the password, or any other important information, just the file that stores information for easy and quick access to programs. A common problem with network users is that they automatically enter the password when their computer starts up without looking at the Username box. If someone else logged on to the network using that computer, the username will be different. Make sure that your users are accustomed to looking at the username before entering the password. If the wrong user- name is listed with the wrong password, access is denied to the network. In Windows XP, there is no PWL file or even an equivalent. XP is based on NT technology, meaning it is a more secure, more closed system. It is important that if you’re using XP, you create at least one user who has administrative rights and keep that user separate from all others. For example, when you first log on to XP, the default is Administrator. You should immediately set up user accounts. You might set up only one user account, but you can set up more. Whether these new accounts are administrative is up to you, but make sure you set up at least one — named ME, SuperPower, Backdoor, or some other name that you’ll remember — that has administrative rights. You can make the password anything you want as well, but make sure you remember it. If you fail to set up at least one administrative account, you’ll be out of luck when you want to make major changes to the operating system if your own account somehow gets locked out. Small Business Tip Tip Note