Dean said:
I am trying to hook together 2 win 2k computers so far i can ping each other
and i have shared files on both i mapped a drive from one to the other but
cannot map a drive to one....i cannot seem to "find it" it doesn't show up in
network neighborhood i have them joined to same workgroup. Any ideas?
W2K imposes a security boundary at the box. Since the guest account is
disabled by default, anonymous access is not allowed. In other words, you
can't be anyone unless i can authenticate you as an existing user.
So the fix is to create a user account on system A and to connect from
system B with those credentials. Sysytem A then has the ability to match the
supplied credentials with a local account.
It doesn't stop there either in the case you installed W2K with the NTFS
file system. Read up on the difference between Share-level and User-level
security. You should share to everyone / full control and lock down the
folder's NTFS security by providing the appropriate NTFS attributes for the
appropriate user or group(folder properties, security tab, advanced).
Note that the administrator on system A and the administrator on system B
are 2 distinct accounts living in 2 distinct namespaces. Which is a good
situation otherwise i'ld be able to administer any system anywhere by simply
connecting to it. Pure Logic.
