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Networking Window 2000 & Win 98

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by pwojcieh

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I created a small network of three computers. To of them have Win 2000 but one a laptop has 98. We need to leave it at 98 so it can run an obsolete printer, that won't work with 2000. I told Win 2000 it is a workgroup and all the computers have the same workgroup name. I can see all the computers on the win 2000 machines, and I can see them on the laptop. When I try to map to a drive, it asks for a password. I didn't set up any password, so I don't know why it's asking for it. And when Itry and look at the other computers on the network, it says I don't have access to the resouces. I don't want to set up a domain, just a little workgroup share files and printers that's all. I made sure the files and folders can all be shared and even went and set them. Go back to the laptop and I can't access the resouces, and same thing, it wants a password. I can't figure it out. I really need to solve this,please help

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by dklippert

Configuring Windows 2000 Professional to Work in a Peer-to-Peer Workgroup: Q258717

http://tinyurl.com/15d1

http://www.broomeman.com/support/wsnet2k.html

On Windows 2000 machine go to Control Panel> Users and Passwords
and add the Windows98 username/password that you login with.

If your windows98 machine is set to start up without a password you
need to set one as that is what windows 2000 expects to get.

You can also set up the Guest account on the 2K machine. It's off by default.

by e_rajeev

Evidently, you are facing the problem when trying to access a share on Win2K PC from the Win98 Laptop. Accessing 98 Laptop shares from Win2K pC should not cause this problem.
Windows 2000 being a secure OS require a Username and password tobe provided by anyone trying to accessing its shared resource.
When Windows 98 tries to access this shared drive on the Win2K PC, it provides the Username that was used to login on to theWindows 98 laptop.
What you require to do is to create a User in biththe Windows 2000 PCs which match the User name used on the Windows 98 PC.
For this you can go to Admintools applet in Control panel. Select Computer management and Add user.
Trust this helps

by sohail80_

There is difference between Windows 2K security database and the Windows 98 Database. If you are connecting Windows 98 System with Windows 2000 System .Then you must have an account with same credentials on both Windows 2000 and Windows 98. Only then you can be able to log on to any of the Windows. The second solution to this problem is that In windows 2000 Policies. There is one policy that defines that who can log in to the network. You can set the policy to "any one can log on" in this caseyou will not be prompted for password. when you acces the windows 2000 system from any where but you have to define this policy on every client if not in domain.

by pwojcieh

Doug,
I printed your instructions and it worked like a charm. Thank you so much for the info, the user was as upset as I was, but everything is working great including a 10 year old engraver, that the company said wouldn't work anymore.
Thanks!

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