password required to connect?

headknockerfan · Post by **headknockerfan** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 8:54 am

This should be an easy question for most of you, but it has me stumped.

My home network consists of a couple desktops running 98SE, and two laptops running XP and Windows 2K, respectively. From my 2K laptop I can access files on any of the other machines with no problem. However, when I try to go the other way and access files on the 2K laptop, I get a "Enter password" dialog box. There is no textfield to enter a username, just the password.

I know that Windows 2K handles security differently than 98SE, but what do I need to do to allow users to access the files on my 2K machine?

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 9:02 am

Whatever you're using to log into the Win9X machine, meaning...username and password...add that account to the local users of the NT machine.

So if you log into the Win9X rig using a username of "Head" with a password of "knocker"...you'll add that same exact user to the NT machine in user manager.

headknockerfan · Post by **headknockerfan** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 8:04 am

YOSC...that did it...thank you very much