My small home network is made up of 3 PCs and a router. I am not new to computers but am new to networking. Everything works fine on all PCs as far as accessing shared files and accessing the internet. For some reason one of them, after accessing something on the network or internet and is idle long enough, will ask for a login. When I had a user account password set up to log onto the machine at startup I would try to use the same password for the network login but it would not work. The only way out is to reboot the PC. I've gone into user accounts (there are only 2; one for me and one that was made up by Windows) and made sure there was not a password setup on either account.
I just thought of something!!!! Could it be that I have not disabled the password in the BIOS? Of course that would not explain why it won't take the password that I setup in the BIOS. Oh well?
There is probably just some setting for this that I haven't found yet?