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I have a network between a win. 2K box and a 98 SE. I have the network working so i can access the 98 computer from the win. 2k computer. The problem is when i try to connect to the win. 2k computer from the 98. It sees the computer there but everytime i try to connect to it it asks for a password. I have not set up any passwords or can even find the spot where i would change it if i had one. I dont quite know what to do. Any ideas?
Hmm,
Haven't done that for a while but I seem to recall that you need to go into both machines and set up networking/file/printer sharing. It sounds as if you have only completed one half of this. Check the networking options on your Win98SE box, and on your 2k one.
Cheers
1) Does Windows (on the 2k machine) automatically start up, or do you have to log on first (presuming the former)?
2) Have you tried logging on as admin (if you have an admin password set)?
3) To everyone else -- could this be a compatibility issue since its 98 trying to connect to 2k while 2k can connect to 98 with no problems? That's kind of what I'm suspecting...
Its been a long time since I have seen a win9x machine but I'll take a stab...
In a peer to peer environment like this....Try to make sure you have a profile that requires a password on your Win9x machine. Make sure the username and password of that profile matches exactly an account on your win2k machine. Of couse the account on the win2k machines needs to have permissions to access whatever you are attempting to access from the Win9x box.
The Win2k machine is looking for a login to it's local "domain". Find it's computer name through My Computer - Properties, (there's one more to go through, it's a tab and I'm not on a Win2k box right now so it's different but you should be able to find it), and then when the win98 box asks for the login name and password do it as follows:-
(If the Win2k box's name is swizewin2kbox)
the username = swizewin2kbox\adminstrator
the password is the administrator's password for the Win2k box.
That should work. Win2k is picky about security and "domains" simply using adminstrator as the username could mean the administrator of AO. You need to specify the domain and the only domain your Win2k box understand is it's local domain.
Hi Angelic~
I have done this down a null modem cable a while back...........I am pretty sure it was 98Se and Win2K rather than ME and 2k
It did ask for a password I am sure, and a name for the other computer.
I have just had a thought though:
If he has set up Win2K with an NTFS file system, Win98SE won't be able to do anything with it, even if he does get in?
Cheers
IIRC, It does not matter what FS the client/server uses?
Only that they both have file and print sharing enabled...
Win2k does the actuall access, and sends the file to 98... I think.
i feel like a idiot but i forgot where to go to enable file and print sharing on my win. 2k mechine. I think that i have it set up for file and print sharing but it couldnt hurt to make sure.
If I remember right you go to start > settings > network and dial up connections > right click on your connection > properties > networking tab. I think it's in there, but it's been a while.
Under the network properties I went in and clicked on file and printsharing. when i clicked on that i couldnt get into the properties on that. The botton for the properties of the file and print sharing isnt even clickable. If i right click on it then i only get the what is this help in the right click menu....
(Getting the impression that none of us has done this in a long time, which is probably a good thing.)
Isn't file and print sharing a component of Windows 98 that is not always installed by default? It may be necessary to add that Windows component, which is listed under networking, before any of this will work.
Tiger shark is right as there is no problem when you connect to the 98 machine from the win2K box the problem is not one of file sharing. All that is needed is to type into the password box the details of an account that has acces to the windows 2000 computer. I would also guesse that if certain options are not clickable that you do not have administrator access to the windows 2000 machine.
I have had this problem before. During the office upgrade from 98se to 2000 it was a pain. What you need to do is set up a user on both computers with the same name and password. Then the 98 machine will be given access to the 200 machine.
As far as file and print sharing, I am not sure exactly what you are asking. If you have already added it to your connection all you have to do is set up the printers as network printers and the network drives you would like.
I hope that helps.
- Adiz
Im going to have to agree with some of the others adn say that the problem is that 98 has a hard time reading the 2k box while the 2k is backwords compatible and can read the 98. the idea of giving both the computers identical accounts is intresting and may work for overcomming the password issue, but you still need to overcome the compatibility issues with 98 and 2k. good luck and keep us updated.
adiz: You have it for a standalone box. The 98 machine doesn't need to read the NTFS drive. the 2000 box does that as it acts like a server and it provides the file itself to the 98 box not some NTFS version of it. We have some 98 boxes on the domain but all the servers are win2k so I know that to be correct.
As to logging in, now my memory is jogged you do need to create a user on the win2k box to allow the 98 box to log in. The reason being is that 98 box doesn't understand the SSID concept and so cannot provide any information regarding it. If the user is created on the 2k box it will search for the user within it's own "domain", if it finds it it doesn't need the SSID. It would require the SSID if the users domain is not local to the WIN2k box, hence the login failure.
If my aging memory is still good it should work with adiz's solution.
I dont know why i dont have the access to all the options in my own computer. i have it set so i am the admin. but for some reason i get a message every once and awhile that tells me i dont have the permission. Any ways i will try some of the things you guys have mentioned.. ill let you know if it doesnt work.... thanks again!
Another thing: when you finally get File Sharing enabled, and it asks for an SMB password or something like that, type in the name of the shared folder as the username. This works almost all the time when mounting folders between filesystems, such as an Apple and an Winbox...