Win ME Can't See Win 2000 Computers

[Steve Carter]

Hi all,

I recently built my younger son a computer out of old parts and software.
The only op system I had that was not in use was Win ME. I cannot get the
Win 2000 computers on my Workgroup network to allow the Win ME computer to
share a printer. What to do?

TIA,

SBC

 

[Dave Patrick]

You'll want to create an account (in Users and Passwords) on the Win2k
machine(s) with the username and password that you use to logon to the win9x
machine(s) with. Then you'll need to share out the resource(s) with
permissions for those users. Also make sure they're all part of the same
workgroup. Then you'll no longer be prompted for the IPC$ password
Inter-process communication)

In a peer level workgroup, when you try to access resources on a Windows
2000 machine, Windows 2000 needs to authenticate the user. If the user
account doesn't exist in it's local account database, then access will be
denied.

 

[James MAK]

You should use Fat32 for WIN2K, otherwise Win ME can't see Win2k!

 

[Dave Patrick]

Utterly ridiculous.