Win98 accessing W2K with file sharing

[ddebrock]

This is a wierd situation for me. This network has 4 win98, 3 W2K, and 1 WinXP machine. After some work I got the 2Ks and the XP to access the hard drive of all the other computers. However, one of the 2000 machines shows up under 3 different names and only one of them works. The main problem is when I try to access the 2000s and XP from the 98s it says "You must supply a password to make this connection......\\computername\IPC$". Two of the 98s can access the XP machine with no noticable differences in configuration. They say it used to work(not sure when) and that they never set any passwords for the file sharing(more computers than people). Any help would me greatly appreciated.

 

[TSSTechie]

Howdy,

Are they logging into the affected 98 machines with a password?
The connection won't work and will generate the box you're seeing if not.

Hope this helps

TSSTechie

May The Force Be With You

 

[krisnamurali]

right, did u check those win2k user names in all those 3 running win2k and win98, usually when u access shared forlders/resources from win2k it asks for username and password, in other words a username and password to log in to that win2k computer. anonymos users cannot access resources. i had same problem with win2k, i wasn't able to access printers with a different name other than those in the computer sharing printer. what u can do is create couple of user names in win2k and ask them to log into win98 with those user names then u can access what ever shared.
i am suggesting based on my experience and i'm not a qualified network engineer/sys admin, a qualified sys admin may have better idea. for now this works well 4 u.

kris

 

[ddebrock]

Actually it would not let me give it user name. Therefore I had to make sure the W2K machines had all the user names the other computer were using. Then it didn't even ask for a password unless I specifically told it to. Thanks for the replies though.