Acessing my Network Neighborhood is too slow in Win2k Pro.

[Quickfingerz]

I am a Win2k newbie. Whenever I try to access the network, it goes very slow. How do I speed it up? It works perfectly fine in Win 98 SE. Are my protocols wrong: Here's what I have installed:
AppleTalk Protocol
NWLink NetBIOS
NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Compatible Transport Protocol
NetBEUI Protocol
Internet Protocol
I dont' even know what some of these do.

Also, how do I share in Win2k? It seems very weird. How do I share so that everyone can access my share folder? How do I put a password?

Please help.

 

[Rogue]

First off, dump Appletalk (unless you have a Mac on your network) and NWLink (unless you are using NetWare on your network). Sharing is simple, especially is you chose NTFS for your partition. If not, FAT32 is just as easy, it's just that NTFS allows granular control of file permissions etc. All you need to do to share is make sure that you have File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks installed, then right click on the folder(s) you wish to share and set permissions using the dialog boxes that appear (it is really pretty self-explanatory once you have File and Printer sharing installed).

 

[Quickfingerz]

Ok, everytime someone tries to access my shared files, it prompts them for a password although I didn't specify a password when I shared the file. and what about the users: "default", "NETWORK" I have no idea about what goes on there. This stuff is getting me very confused. I've tried messing with the setting but i stil can't get my files shared.

as far as the slow network thing, it's still there. I took out nwlink and apple talk. still slow. is there a good help file? argh!

 

[Layzie310]

I've been having the same speed problems on my dorm lan in win2k. Win98se browses instantaneously while win2k takes forever. I don't know how to fix it though. But, I do know how to get your computer to stop asking for a password (or at least in my case this worked). I don't know if you said you tried this or you didn't know what it meant but you should right click on a folder you want to share and click on share, select that you want to share that folder and then click on "Permissions," click "Add," then select "NETWORK" and click add and ok. Then select NETWORK in the name window and look at the portion of the window that says "Permissions" and make your changes accordingly (I checked deny for change and allow read). This worked for me but it sounds like you might have tried this already.

 

[Quickfingerz]

It's weird because you don't even have to click on a folder, right when you click on my computer, it prompts for a password.

 

[Quickfingerz]

I still don't understand why it asks for a password even when i have nothing shared. Please help all of you win 2k gurus.

 

[ucdnam]

quickfinger: read the response I gave you in the other thread.

 

[ucdnam]

Also, you should consider getting rid of all the other protocols. All you need is client for microsoft networks, file/printer sharing, and TCP/IP. That should speed up the access some.

 

[1KrazyFool]

Win2000 browes Win98 shares very slowly, and it's a known issue w/ Win2000. Here is a MS KB article about it:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q245/8/00.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0

 

[danii8]

Yes, I have same slowing problem with win2k pro and win ME.
And another problem is somtimes I can't find my neighbor computer
They don't exist.

 

[SaturnX]

In order to solve the password prompt, you must make another user (or enabled the Guest Account, though this is highly avoided), then with the other computer, if it's lets say 98, set the logon in the network properties to Windows Logon(i think) and logon to the 98 system with the username and password that you set for the account on the 2K system. This should solve your problems.

--Mark

 

[Kishkumen]

The way I've always gotten shares to work between win98 and win2k is to make sure that the user name and password you are using on your windows 98 machine corresponds to an exact same user name and password on the windows 2000 machine. For example if you freshly install windows 2000 and only have the administrator user created, then share your "download" folder on Win2k and set it to "Everyone" then go to your windows 98 machine where the login name is set to Bob with no password you will not be able to log in. You will then have to either go to the start menu just above the "Shut Down..." option and click "Log off Bob" then when the dialog comes up type "Administrator" for the user and your windows 2000 password and you will be able to see the download folder and no prompt should come up asking for a user name and password at the point OR you can go into windows 2000 and create a user Bob with no password and achieve the same effect. Like I said this is the way I do it with my Windows 2000 and Windows 98 machines and there are probably other ways to do it as well. Good luck in figuring it out.