Logon problems connecting 2000 laptop and XP stationary

From: Martin Magnusson (martin_at_-xx-blecket-xx-.org)
Date: 04/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:55:51 GMT

I'm trying to create a small home network, but I'm having problems
connecting my work laptop (which is on a domain) to the other computers
(which are in a workgroup).

The setup is as follows:

There are two computers running Win98 connected via a router. They are
set to use a workgroup (MHB), and they can communicate and share a PPPoE
Internet connection just fine. I recently connected another computer
running WinXP, and it uses the same workgroup and seems to work allright.

The problem is with my work laptop, running Win2000, that I also want to
connect. It is configured to use a domain, and I won't change that. Now,
all computers show up in the router's client list. However, when I try
to connect from the XP machine into the 2000 machine (by typing its IP
address in Windows Explorer), I get a dialog asking me for a username
and password. I enter "HOSTNAME/username" for the name (where HOSTNAME
is the name of the XP machine and username is the name I use to logon to
the laptop) and my regular password, but nothing happens. When I try to
connect from the Win2k laptop to the XP machine I just get an error
message saying something like "there are no logon servers available".

Any ideas as to what's going on?

/ martin

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