2K Printer Password Pain

[bdantoni]

I am on peer to peer with 2 Win98 machines. I can see them, they cannot see me. I have tried to make my files and printer available to everyone, but when trying to print from a network location, I get the message that I must enter network password. I have tried to make my system very password friendly and did not set up a network password. I enter every password I have ever used in this system (including blank field) and still recieve the message that the password is incorrect, please try again. Stumped.

 

[bxrxyxe]

The reason why it is not accepting the password is because it is also taking the user name the person logged into their pc with. It dosen't matter what password you enter, if the user name of the person logged into their window 98 computer with is not setup to have access to your printer, the 98 user will not be able to access. What are the win98 users logging into their computer with? Usually people call the user default, and then they are not prompted with a password when they start up windows 98. Even if you set up the share to have everyone access, then the 98 user is going to have to be a member of the everyone local group on the win2k workstation. Try a few of these things:

1. When you start up a win98 workstation user your user id that you use to log into the win2k workstation. If that works then.

2. Determine what the users are setting as the user id when they log on to the windows98 workstation. Set up that user to have access to the everyone group on the win2000 workstation and allow everyone access to the shared printer.

In windows 2000, when you try to access a share on another workstation you are prompted to enter the user id and password. For some reason, win98 only ask for the password.

~brye

 

[bdantoni]

Thanks. That was a beginning. My computer guy did give a funny log on name to the wayward computer. Now, I am no longer asked for a password, :-( but I cannot see nor access the 2K files or printer. Should I just start a new thread since this seems to be a different problem altogether?

 

[bxrxyxe]

Do you have NTFS setup, if so make sure you are setting the permissions on the security tab instead of the share tap. These tabs are under the properties of each file or dir.