Can't access nt server from w2k client?

[bluegreenturtle]

Hi -

I've got a bit of a bonehead question that I'm sure there is an easy answer to, but I've had a long day and can't quite seem to phrase it right on google to get an answer.

I've got a workgrouped office - 10 workstations, 2 file servers (one running nt4 server, one running w2k server), DHCP dished out via a firewall.

I just upgraded one of the workstations to windows 2000 pro. The workstation is named the same thing it's always been named and has the same login. (it was 98 before.)

On that workstation, everything works, except that it can't access the nt4 fileserver. It can SEE it on the network, but it gives a password prompt when I try to get into it. We have no security internally, everybody should be able to get into that server, all it's drives are shared. The entire rest of the network shows up normally.

I can access the shares on the w2k server just fine.

What am I doing wrong? All other w2k workstations can access that fileserver.

Thanks. I'm sure it's simple.

 

[mboy]

Make sure u have an account (user and pass) created on the NT server for the 2k.

Do u have the 2k box set to log into server as a domain or workgroup? (how do the others authenticate?)

 

[bluegreenturtle]

It's a workgroup. The authentication is pretty much non-existant - the company policy for the moment is no password, so they just hit enter. The only thing that's different about this box is that when I set that up, I did use the "assume this user always logs in" so instead of getting a prompt at startup, it goes through the whole login process automatically. I don't see how this could be it?

 

[rayster]

Originally posted by: mboy
Make sure u have an account (user and pass) created on the NT server for the 2k.

Do u have the 2k box set to log into server as a domain or workgroup? (how do the others authenticate?)

Try using the NT server's admin user/pwd when you are prompted to login. I'm fairly sure you need some sort of authentication, even if it's later cached and becomes transparent.

 

[mboy]

Yes, win2k and win 9x are completely different animals when it comes to networking, servers, etc

 

[bluegreenturtle]

ok, I'm embarrassed. It turns out that the user's login name was slightly different from what I put in. I guess I was thrown because the other servers (w2k) let her in anyway. But I guess the difference in NT and 2K was enough that having bad credentials stopped the access.

Thanks for the responses.