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by natesarah

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I am having trouble at the company I work at with Windows NT Server 4.0 and 95/98 clients. On each Win95/98 client, we designated a password for the "C" drives. One read-only password and one "Full" password. Using the passwords, I can access anyC:\ drive from any other client, but when I try to access a client's C:\ drive from the server, I get a box that asks me for the username and password. I have tried every possible combination, but I can't access the drive. I am guessing that this is an NT security issue, but I can't seem to get any answers.

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by shmaltz

I dont know how to solve your problem with your current configuration, but change the access lavel of each 9x client computer to require user level access instead of share level access this way it pulls the list of users from the Domain controller and you assign full or read permission on users and they dont have to give a password, this will also solve the problem you have from the NT machine.
to change all at once (all the 9x machines to user level security) you can use policy editor its on the win98 CD you have to install policy editor on a windows 9x machine then run it from the windows 9x machine and then save it to the netlogon share on the winnt machine (the default location of the netlogon share is: "winnt\system32\repl\import\scripts" the name of the file for win9x clients has to be "config.pol" and you also have to make sure that each win9x client is set up to logon to winnt domain for password validation (in the network control panel).

by shanghai sam

Do not enter anything in the username box. Tab to the password box and enter the password. Even a space in the username box can cause a problem. 95/98 only have share-level permissions. Any one can get into a 95/98 system. The password by itself is the only protection. NT will work with the share-level permissions if the username box has no entries.

by kbrx

In the USER NAME: box try entering your "DOMAIN\username" instead of just your username alone. Then enter your password.

Don't forget the backslash.

by beefhead

If you are obtain access from a command line/script, set the password field and not the username field. I will check my command line login at work tomorrow and post it as a comment.

by natesarah

Yea, I have has a similar problem were answer 2 is the correct solution. I actually figured out the problem now: I can't use caps when entering in the Username or Password! I know it was something simple.

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