Windows 2000 and sharing folders over network

[saym]

I have a hub and router that I have a win98 and win2000 machine on. The win 2000 can see the win98 machine and browse its hard drive, but the win 98 machine can only see the win2000 machine. Everytime I click on the icon that represents the win2000 machine the win98 machine prompts me for a password. I try the administrator password but it says it's incorrect. I leave the password field blank and it give the same thing.

On the win2000 machine I've have the drive setup to be shared without the $ sign at the end of the share folder. I even created new share folders. Giving "Everyone" full access to both the default share and the one I created.

What am I overlooking?

 

[SmiZ]

i believe you have to logon to the win98 machine as a user that has an account on the 2000 machine.

Example: you logon to your 98 machine with user : Pass
bob:home

setup an account on your 2000 machine for user bob, pass home, then give that account whatever rights and privlidges you want on your 2000 machine. now go back to your 98 machine and logon as bob and try to get to the 2000 machine. use the password home and you should be able to see whatever folders you gave that account access to.

 

[saym]

That did it. Thanks

 

[Z24]

I believe if you re-enable the guest account that it will work too. As long as you give "guest" priveleges to the folders you want to share.

Dave

 

[Soccer55]

Another thing you could do is install Internet Information Services (IIS) in Win2k. Once you do this, it is similar to an FTP server so you can use your admin account from a computer on a different system to log into your Win2k computer. I used that to store my girlfriend's stuff when she was transferring it from her old computer to her new one. Works really well.

-Tom

 

[syf3r]

yeah but you don't *really* want to enable the guest account, do you? that should be the first thing you disable, and win2k smartly disables it by default.

-syf3r.