Network login problem

[gospel]

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?

[Law]

Are you talking about the screen saver lock? Or are you talking about the login prompt when you access a remote computer's share folder? Because I'm having a difficult time determining what you are talking about.

[gospel]

Originally Posted by Law

Are you talking about the screen saver lock? Or are you talking about the login prompt when you access a remote computer's share folder? Because I'm having a difficult time determining what you are talking about.

It is kind of like a screen saver lock but not exactly. I do not have a screensaver password set up. This has only happened since starting up my network. It's like some default setting was enabled when I started networking but it does not take any password?

[BoysNightOut]

Only thing I would think it could be is the screen saver lock...there shouldn't be a login screen all of a sudden popping up...unless the PC physically reboots.

You don't have a domain network to login too...so I don't know what the deal is on this one...that's entirely odd. I would think only could be screen lock?

[shortstop20]

So you have a shared folder on your network open on a PC and after a certain period of no activity it asks for a login? Sounds like maybe folder permissions need to be changed to allow longer connection time before login required or required at all after initial login when opening the folder. But I've never seen an option like that.