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95 work stations and 2000 proworkstation

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by zlitocook

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I have a director who upgrades every time something new comes out. But I dont have time to learn it all! He was running NT 4.0 and did a compleatly new install of WIN2000 PRO. A few other WIN95 computer access his computer to exchage files with NT. But now only NT computers can see his files, and 95 computers can see his computer but not his files. These are on a shared folder. He is not using NTFS and there is no special sharing going on. The only problem I had was getting him on the network.

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by zlitocook

I am not good with 2000 yet, but I am working on it. He had an outside vendor upgrade his computer and setup the computer, so I had to add a NIC and set him up on the servers. I can see all computers and servers on the network and setup sharing and printers. But the 95 workstations can not access his shared files. I will go through all the settings and configurations on monday, but any ideas or tips will get points!

by zlitocook

We are using a NT 4.0 server network with mostly 95 work stations and a few 98 workstations. Exchange server for email. The computer with the problem is a white box with a 1 ghrz chip, 512 mb mem. And nothing else special, it seems to be a permission or sharing problem. Is there a site you can suggest for tips, tricks and fast help on WIN2000PRO?

by kurtand

I would suggest that you have agood luok at the permissions on the shared drive. Also ahve a look at the users and user groups on the W2K box. Any users that are accessing from a W98 will need to be given permission to access the W2K box and you might even need to list them as users with the same username and password as they are using to access the NT network.

by jwilczyn

Create a user account with the same user name and password on w2k as on win95. Check the workgroup name/domain name, TCP/IP address and subnet mask. You will be able to access W2k from W95 box ? if the same user name and password (which you used to logon to 95) is present on W2k box. Check permissions and shares on W2k.

by john shi

Try adding the local group "Network" to the folder access. I used to have that prob but went away after i added the group to the ACL.

by zlitocook

This seems to have worked for now. I created a folder on the 2k pro computer with full sharing and all user permissions. But I found other problems with the win 95 computer. It dose not see the full network, it finds most of the network but not all.I am going to put in a new NIC card and see what happens.

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