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Prompt for a User Name

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by cwoods

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How do I make Windows 98 prompt for a User Name when mapping a network drive?

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by mike o

You can try moving over to User-Level access control in the Networking control panel, but I'm not sure it will actually ask for a User name.

However, it will allow you to specify what users have access to shares, etc.

by cwoods

I currently log on to three different servers (all set up with different user names by my beloved IT department). Windows NT (desktop) allows me to "Connect As:" but Win98 (laptop) doesn't.

by william jay

Windows 98 won't, but the sharepoint can. The easiest is to set the properties on the share to "depends on password". When the win9x system connects, the share will ask for a username and password to assign the appropriate permissions, (read, full, ...).

by william jay

I see by the comment to answer1 that things are a bit more complicated. Win98 remembers the sharelevel passwords, so it may require re-creating the associated username/password combos. To see this in action, login to the win98 system as a different user and attempt to make the connections ...

by cwoods

I guess I'll just have to continue badgering the IT department to change all my server user names to the same one... thanks anyway.

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