File/print sharing between 98/XP/2003 Mixed Domain

From: Wes Stewart (wstewart_at_gmail.com)
Date: 06/16/04 

Date: 15 Jun 2004 17:12:54 -0700

I recently added two W2K3 Domain Controllers to my NT4 domain, thus I
am running in Mixed Mode with the 2 W2K3 DC's and 1 NT4 BDC. I have
several Windows 98SE clients that have shared printers. After the
upgrade when users are trying to print to the shared W98 printers they
are getting a request for an IPC$ password. I can disable and enable
the sharing and users can sometimes print for a while then they are
prompted for the password again.

All clients are required to login to the domain, and they can access
all of their mapped drives with no problems.

I have installed the Hotfix W98 2003AD Client on both the system
sharing the printer and the pc trying to connect to the printer.
Sharing worked for about 15 minutes.

>From the W2K3 DC's or a XP machine I cannot connect to the shared
printer or folders of a W98 machine, getting the IPC$ password prompt
as well.

WINS is setup & running on a third non-DC W2K3 server and the W98 PC's
are showing up in the Active Registrations.

I have now spent over 40 hours trying to figure this problem out, can
anyone help?

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