Is 2000 server required for a file server?

[Mildlyamused]

Yes I have checked both the security tab and the sharing tab. In both tabs I put it so that only the following accounts could access it: Administrator (not S), Stevo, and Guest. No users, no administrators no guests. But when I change it so that it's users or administrators, it works but it still doesn't prompt for a password....

 

[TGS]

The reason for having the same accounts/passwords on both machines is so you don't have to put in authentication information each time you access a network share. Unless the share has the access rights to all, and security on the file system is set to all, you will need to input a password each time you access. Place the same username/password on the machine with the share gets around this.

If you are in a domain, DC or AD setup the machine with the share checks the permission levels of the user accessing the network resources. Your setup compares security based on it's local information. IE it's own local users/passwords.

You have to have, in a non-domain setup, a local account or you cannot login to the shared resources. Hence the basis of people recommending the same user/password on each side.

One thing to check would be to make a share on your XP machines, and access those through the Win2k machines. I had a friend who could not access shares on a Win2k machine from WinXP due to the XP firewall.

 

[Mildlyamused]

Its a real problem for me to be able to access the share/have anyone else on the network access the share especially if they are admins which means they can access the other computer automatically with no password. If some one were to get unauthorized access to my computer (left with out locking), they could just access the network share with out a password which is WHY I NEED the password. When I do \\computername\c$ I only get a password if on a limited account otherwise I have free access on admin account.. When I do \\computername\files\ I get automatic access on any account with out password, talk about lack of security..

 

[Nothinman]

It doesn't matter what rights they have on the local machine when accessing a remote share, they're still prompted for a password and they'll only have access that's provided to the account that they login to the remote machine as.