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Sharing Win2000 & Win98

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by gua

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Hi.

I hope that somebody could please help answering my questions.

I have a desktop running Win98 and a notebook running Win2000. I don't have a PDC server in my office, but I configured every clients to be in the same workgroup.

I shared afolder in the notebook that run Win2000 and give "Everyone" all access.

How do I make the user from the Win98 desktop PC access to my shared folder ?

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by jwilczyn

Create user account on a notebook with win2000 ? same as on Win98 (user name and password). Change permissions on the share, to let this person access it. Every person accessing your shared folder on your notebook must have an account created there.

by scoghlin

If you are not worried about security and want everyone to access the share on the Windows 2000 PC, you can enable the guest account. By enabling the guest account you will not need to setup seperate users on the Windows 2000 PC.
To enable the Guest account go into Control Panel, Users and passwords, Advanced Tab, Advanced, Users, then right click and select properties of Guest, remove check from disable user.

by estebandelatorre

1st Check protocols (ping, netbeui, etc)
2nd Be sure to see the w2k pc under explorer
3rd Log in into w98 with an account created (local) in the w2k user manager (or the same user you use to log into w2k)

Good luck

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