Re: Logon problems connecting 2000 laptop and XP stationary

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From: Marina Roos [SBS-MVP] (marina_at_roos.nodontwantspam.nl.com)
Date: 04/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:52:44 GMT

Make sure all computers are in the same workgroup and that all useraccounts
exist on all computers (W2K/XP's). Got File- and printersharing loaded? Is
Netbios over TCP/IP enabled (Advanced properties of TCP/IP, tab WINS)? 

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Regards,
Marina
Microsoft SBS-MVP
"Martin Magnusson" <martin@-xx-blecket-xx-.org> schreef in bericht
news:X5yec.55850$mU6.231828@newsb.telia.net...
> 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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