Win2K networking

[Ed]

Hi,
I have a small home network consisting of 5 machines. I
recently installed win2k on one of the machines. I can't
seem to configure the network correctly. I know the PCI
card is working due to the fact that this machine has a
dual operating system and it works fine on ME. The win2k
machine sees some of the machines on my network but not
all. The machines it sees are asking me for a password
when I try to connect to the win2k machine.I have never
assigned a password to it. The machine with XP does not
see the win2k machine at all. I am not an expert here so
could someone give me step by step instructions?
Thanks,
Ed

 

[Rob]

Hi Ed

I gather one of these machines is connected to the
internet?

The easiset way to do it is to enable internet connection
sharing on the machine with the connection. Right click
IE. Properties, Connections, settings .....

and share the internet connection. This acts as a kind of
DHCP server.

Then on all the other machines set the TCPIP properties of
the NIC's to assign IP address automatically.

All the machines will be able to communicate. and will all
have internet access.

Hope this helps

Rob

 

[G]

Of course, you also need to setup shares and have a user account and
password - it is required in W2K. OP said he did not create one, but he may
have just left administrator/<blank> in which case login to all pcs with
administrator/<blank> and he will then be able to connect to any shares
given permissions to that account on the w2K box. Better practice would be
to create a real user account and not use the administrator account. Use
that same account to login to all pcs.