XP 2000 connectivity

[brainstorm]

Hi, I'm a bit of a novice at this and thought things would
just simply work ... but sadly they don't so any help
would be greatly appreciated.
I'm a small 'network' - 3 machines 2 winXP pro and 1
win2000 my 2000 machine can look into one of the XP
machines but the xp machine can't look into the 2000
machine. I'm using static IPs and just peer to peer
connections (no dns addresses added) on a workgroup. the
xp machines show an icon for the 2000 machine but talk
about not having permissions to connect. I haven't set any
permissions - I've shared the directories with 'everyone'
but seems I've forgotten something!!!!

Mark White

 

[Miha Pihler]

Hi Mark,

Try to connect to your Win2K PC from XP PC like this:

net use x: \\10.10.10.10\c$ /user:win2kpcname\username password

x: = new virtual drive
10.10.10.10 = Your Win2K PC Name
win2kpcname = Name of your Win2K PC
username = User created on Win2K PC
password = password for username on Win2K PC

***********
e.g.

net use x: \\10.10.10.10\c$ /user:W2KPC\administrator pa55$wd!01
***********

I hope this helps you out...

 

[Bennie Chen]

Hi Mark,

Thank you for posting!

Yes, you can try NET USE to use a different account to see if this helps.

In addition, you may check the NTFS permission if the Windows 2000 system
is using NTFS. The user need have both the Share permission and the NTFS
permission to access the folder.

Hope this helps. Thank you!

Regards,
Bennie Chen
Product Support Services
Microsoft Corporation

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[Bennie Chen]

Good information!

Yes, if the user account you use on the XP computer does not exist in
Windows 2000, it tries to use the guest account to access Windows 2000
shares. If the guest account is not enabled, you are unable to access the
resource.

Use the same username/password on all computer can be a good workaround,
since there is not a Domain.

Thank you!

Regards,
Bennie Chen
Product Support Services
Microsoft Corporation

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.