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by jsarinana

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With NT and Windows 2000 I can map a drive to another Nt or Windows 2000 computer drive. How do you do this to a Windows 98 computer

From a NT or Windows 2000 computer I use \\computername\x$ where x is the drive I want to map too and I know the login and/or password to the computer. ? ? ?

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by dmiles

1)Right-click the Network Neighborhood icon and choose Map Network Drive.Or,browse to the shared folde and select it ,and then choose File,Map Network Drive

2)In the Map Network Drive dialog box,choose the drive letter you want to associate with the remote share

3)In the path to the resource is not already specified,type the path to the resorce in the Path combo box,or select a previously connected share from the combo box drop-down list

4)If you want Windows to automatically connect the same driver letter to this share every time you start Windows,place a check in the Reconnect at logon check box

Click OK

by timthetoolman

Hi,

Drop the "$" when mapping to Win98's drives.
Or set up a specific share on the win98 machine and map to that.

Cheers,
Tim.

by troberts

If you are connecting to a w98 computer you first need to have File and Print Sharing installed Check your Network Settings and add the service. You then need to share a drive or directory. Under NT/2000 all drives have an automatic, hidden share $, in W98 you need to select a drive and then, in its properties, choose to share it and select a share name.

If you are connecting to an NT/2000 share from a W98 box then the logged on user must have been given permissions to the share (W98 connects to all resources with the same username where NT/2000 can connect to multiple computers with different userID/passwords).

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