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Chapter 13 ✦ Accessing the Network Whenever you’re working with Windows, things happen that no one can explain. For exam- ple, say you turn your XP machine on one day and it won’t let you log on. It doesn’t recog- nize your username andor your password. Why? There could be many reasons, but no on really knows exactly what happened. You can go back to the last time you were logged on and try to remember if you loaded new software or downloaded a program and perhaps got a virus. The point is that it doesn’t matter how it happened as long as you have a workaround. A good workaround here is the backdoor administrator’s account you created. Log on as your back door, create yourself a new user, and away you go. Understanding passwords You use passwords for security purposes on a clientserver network. On a Windows 98 work- group network, the password doesn’t keep anyone from accessing the network, but it does help create the PWL file to store your password list. In Windows XP or on the Mac, your com- puter is safer than it is in Windows 98. Microsoft and Apple realized that security is a con- cern, even in small businesses and home networks. So in XP or the Mac, the password does work. You cannot get into an XP or a Mac without a user account and password. On a Windows 98 workgroup network, anyone can log on to any computer at any time. One of your teenager’s friends can turn on a networked computer, for example, and then enter his or her name and any password. If that person opens the Network Neighborhood, all networked computers that are currently turned on appear, giving free access to shared folders and drives. You can protect your computer from unauthorized physical access by setting a screen saver password. This technique protects the computer only from physical entry; it doesn’t keep anyone from accessing your shared folders over the network if that person successfully hacks into your system. To specify a password that’s associated with the screen saver, double-click the Display icon in the Control Panel. Select the Screen Saver tab, and choose a screen saver. Click the Password Protected option, and choose Change. Enter the password, and then click OK in the dialog box. You can change your Windows password or a network logon password anytime you want. If you’re a user on a clientserver network, however, you should make sure that the password is changed on the authentication server before changing it on the client computer. If the server doesn’t recognize a new password, the user isn’t allowed access to the network. To change your password in Windows 98, follow these steps: 1. Choose Start ➪ Settings ➪ Control Panel. 2. Double-click the Passwords icon. The Passwords Properties dialog box appears.

3. On the Change Passwords tab, click the Change Windows Password button. The

Change Windows Password dialog box appears. 4. Enter your current password in the Old Password text box. 5. Enter your new password in the New Password text box. 6. Enter the new password again in the Confirm New Password text box. 7. Click OK to close the dialog box, and then click OK again to close the Passwords Properties dialog box. Close the Control Panel. Tip Tip