I was recently recruited to help administer a POS system that uses a mix of 2 terminals running WinXP Embedded, 1 terminal running Win9x, with a server running WinXP Home. These are all configured for "simple sharing" and in the same workgroup. All are configured for auto-login. These machines run on their own network with no other connections.
I have a sticky problem with file sharing that I can't seem to resolve with any of the info in the FAQ.
The WinXP machines can mount a share on any box, including each other. The Win9x and WinXP Home boxes can only mount a share on each other (not the WinXP Emb boxes). When trying to connect to the WinXP Emb boxes from Win9x, I get a "\\machine_name\IPC$" dialog box asking for a password (re-entering the password doesn't work). This seems to indicate a Windows credentialing problem since the XP Emb box doesn't like the Win9x credentials. The WinXP Emb machines have a user with the same user and password as logged in on the Win9x box, and Guest account is enabled on these machines.
Any suggestions on what policy or other setting needs to change to allow the file shares to work all directions?
Thanks!
I have a sticky problem with file sharing that I can't seem to resolve with any of the info in the FAQ.
The WinXP machines can mount a share on any box, including each other. The Win9x and WinXP Home boxes can only mount a share on each other (not the WinXP Emb boxes). When trying to connect to the WinXP Emb boxes from Win9x, I get a "\\machine_name\IPC$" dialog box asking for a password (re-entering the password doesn't work). This seems to indicate a Windows credentialing problem since the XP Emb box doesn't like the Win9x credentials. The WinXP Emb machines have a user with the same user and password as logged in on the Win9x box, and Guest account is enabled on these machines.
Any suggestions on what policy or other setting needs to change to allow the file shares to work all directions?
Thanks!