Accessing shared drive on Win 2000 machine from Win 98 machine

[PropNut]

I just Installed Windows 2000 Pro on my sons computer I was needing to move some stuff off of my old computer (running Win 98SE) to his hard drive. In the past I could just find his computer on Network Neighborhood and send my back-up etc straight to his hard drive, but since I have installed Windows 2000 on his machine I can see his computer but when I click on it I get "you must supply a password to make this connection" message. I never set up any passwords durring the install or since so the question is...why is it asking for a password ? is there anyway to have it not ask?(like 98SE does) By the way I did set-up the sharing permissions for everyone. Any Ideas?
Thanks

 

[WackyDan]

Originally posted by: PropNut
I just Installed Windows 2000 Pro on my sons computer I was needing to move some stuff off of my old computer (running Win 98SE) to his hard drive. In the past I could just find his computer on Network Neighborhood and send my back-up etc straight to his hard drive, but since I have installed Windows 2000 on his machine I can see his computer but when I click on it I get "you must supply a password to make this connection" message. I never set up any passwords durring the install or since so the question is...why is it asking for a password ? is there anyway to have it not ask?(like 98SE does) By the way I did set-up the sharing permissions for everyone. Any Ideas?
Thanks

You need to log into his machine using his login.... it may be just "administrator" with no password or a password if you gave him one. Then you should be able to see the shared folders. It's called NT security, and if you go into Computer management you can create a guest.user login for yourself/your machine.