Direct Cable Connection help

[henrypuma]

Hello , firstly let me say how good it is to have a forum like this to post to, can someone please help with the following:

2 PC's connected with crossover cable, 1 NIC in each PC, network settings configured, I can ping in both directions and can view both PC's, however
PC1 has W2K Pro Ip address 192.168.1.1
PC2 has W95 Ip address 192.168.1.2
I can access PC2 from PC1 but I cannot access PC1 from PC 2, when I try to view the resources I have shared or when I try to add a network printer I am presented with the following: Resource: \\COMPUTER1\IPC$
pASSWORD: ??? I don't know which password it is asking for as I haven't set one..
Please help

 

[vekraft]

Hi,

I believe you are asked to authenticate yourself on windows 2000 before you are allowed to use the resources provided by win2k. If you have user accounts on your win2k PC, you should be able to use one of these to map resources with.

eg.
PC_1 (win2k PC) user account: testuser, password: password
Share: D$ (drive D:\)

on PC 2, map share \\PC_1\D$ as user 'PC_1\testuser' (ie. account 'testuser' on PC_1, you will be prompted for a password)

Hope this helps.

Veronique

 

[tknofile]

Henry-

If your Win95 box is configured correctly for what you're trying to do you should get an "Enter your password for Microsoft Networking" screen at startup. If you don't get this logon you need to make sure the Client for Microsoft Networks is in the list of installed components in the Network Control Panel and is set as the system logon in the drop-down box underneath the list of installed components. If you do have the CFMN (client for microsoft networks) installed and set as the system logon but receive no logon screen at startup uninstall the CFMN, restart, add it back in and restart again. Once you get the CFMN logon to come up, enter the U/N and pass you use to logon to the Win2K box. You should now be able to browse share points on the Win95 box from the Win2K box. Getting w95 and 2K to talk is a pain for all of us. If this doesn't work try making sure that both machines have the NetBeui protocol bound to the NIC and that neither is running Norton Internet Security (which by default blocks LAN connections until you configure it otherwise).

 

[henrypuma]

Thank you so much for replying after going through various subjects on this excellent site I tried the following suggestion and it worked: On my Win2K PC I went into administrative tools, users+passwords and I enabled the Guest A/C, after doing this and going to the Win95 PC where it asked me to enter a password when trying to access Win2K PC1 I entered my Administrator password and it worked...

thanks again