Can't file share w/ Win2k

[Michael Gilbert]

This must be something really dumb I'm not doing. I have a small peer-peer
network w/ 4 Win98 machines, 1 NT wworkstation, and now 1 Win2k Pro machine.
Everything seems fine, but any attempt to access shared anythings (files,
disks, printers) on the Win2k machine from others results in a dialog box
requesting a password. Since there are no passwords used on the win2k
machine (or anywhere on this small network) I don't know what to enter, or
more importantly how to keep the dialog box from appearing at all. I think
I've turned "file and print sharing" on ok on the Win2k machine, and it sees
shares just fine on other machines. Network Neighborhood shows the machine
just fine, but click on that machine and I get \\name\IPC$ wanting a
password entered. What do I have set wrong?

[AJ Mikkers]

You have to grant your client users rights on the W2k resources. Go to
control panel - users and passwords. Add the users from the list of users in
your domain. Select the resources on your W2k (drives, maps, printers etc)
and add appropriate user. That's all. Good luck, André

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[Michael Leadley]

you need to enable the "guest" account in user manager.
open "Administrative Tools" in control panel, and then "Computer
Management".
expand "Local Users and Groups" and open "users". if there is a red
cross on "Guest" Right click and select properties, take the tick out
of "Account is disabled"

HTH
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[Michael Gilbert]

Thanks, both of you. I'm working fine now. Not well documented, but obvious
to most, I guess.
-mike

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[magg...@mminternet.com]

On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 12:01:54 +0100, Michael Leadley
<mi...@softhome.net> wrote:

>you need to enable the "guest" account in user manager.
>open "Administrative Tools" in control panel, and then "Computer
>Management".
>expand "Local Users and Groups" and open "users". if there is a red
>cross on "Guest" Right click and select properties, take the tick out
>of "Account is disabled"

I am having the exact same problem, and I was hoping that this
would fix it, but it didn't. I'm trying to connect to my win98
computer with win2000 pro, the other partition is NT4 and it can see
it just fine.

I've tried everything suggested to get win2000 to connect to it, but I
can't get it to show up in "computers near me". file and printer
sharing are installed on both, folders are shared on both, and netbeui
is installed on both. It seems like a lot of people are having the
same problem.

Any more ideas?

thanks,
- Mark

[Jason P]

Actually well documented, it is just in diff terminology than "sharing"

Configure Win2000 Prof to work in a Peer-to-Peer Workgroup
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q258/7/17.ASP

jason

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