Re: Can't access win2k network with win98 machine

From: Alan (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/07/04 

Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 07:33:30 -0700

Does the currently logged in user for "Reception" have a
matching (username and password) on the host Windows 2000
system.

One of the disadvantages of the "workgroup" enviroment
each user must have a matching user account on each
machine that he/she wants to access. If you enforce any
password change regiem it has to be done on all systems.
Also if you do have password expiry enabled on the 2000
system you will not be warned when it is due to run out.
Alan
>-----Original Message-----
>quoted from http://www.ChicagoTech.net
>NetBIOS and WINS are required in a mixed network
>NetBIOS and WINS name resolution is required only on
mixed-mode (Windows 95,
>98, Me, NT, 2000 and XP) networks to provide backward-
compatibility older
>versions of Windows. If you have a domain mixed-mode
network with DHCP and
>DNS, you are better to cerate WINS in your system. In
workgroup mixed-mode
>network, most people enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP to
resolve NetBIOS name to
>equivalent to IP addresses. Alternatively, you can
install NetBEUI protocol
>in the clients.
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>"David Coomves" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message
>news:93ba01c43367$86875280$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>> Working in a primary school using win98 on a network
>> (TCP/IP), recent changes have introduced a win2000
system
>> for office/admin work. This has a small network of two
>> machines to which a new win98 machine is to be added.
The
>> win98 machine is successfully installed on the school-
wide
>> network, able to access all machines including the other
>> win98 office machine, but access is denied on the win2k
>> machine which is essential.
>>
>> The setup is basically
>> Win2000 Machine 'Host' on workgroup "WORKGROUP" serving
>> information off D: drive
>>
>> Win98 machine 'Office' on workgroup "WORKGROUP" accesses
>> Host without problem
>>
>> New Win98 machine 'Reception' on workgroup "WORKGROUP"
can
>> access Office but not Host.
>>
>> I didn't set up the original win98-win2k network so
don't
>> know how to go about it. I think I need to set
permissions
>> for the new Reception machine but can't figure out how
to.
>> Right-clicking the target drive "Host D:" and selecting
>> the 'Shared' tab gives a button for Permissions but this
>> returns an error something like "Permission set as
>> Administrator: Cannot be changed". The account logged
into
>> on the win2k Host machine has Administrator permissions
>> AFAIK
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>> David
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