Sharing files over network in Win2k professional?

[The Wildcard]

Okay, i am part of a school network and i am using win2k professional, logged on as administrator. How do i enable a directory to be shared so that other students on the local network can access that directory?

It used to be easy with win98, but with win2k it's strange. Like when my friend tries to connect to my comp over the network, it prompts him for a password, even though i didn't set a password to the directory at all!

 

[Wik]

On your win2k machine you have to create a profile for the computer you want to have access to the shared files. Say you have one computer that is win98 and a win2k as the file server. On the win2k machine you would create a user acoount using the same login as the person on the 98 machine.

 

[goldboyd]

or you could be lazy and insecure and just enable the guest account

 

[blstriker]

Yeah, just enable the guest account and make sure to just share the directories you want, not your whole hard drive.

 

[The Wildcard]

So all i have to do is to setup a user with any username and password, BUT is part of the guest account user-group??

 

[Wik]

No what they are saying is to enable the guest account. Win2K disables this be default. What this will do is allow any computer to log into the Win2K machine. Not very secure but it is a fasst easy solution to allow all systems into the Win2K machine.