Re: cant browse win98 machine

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You should join the W98 machine to the Domain since you have the dsclint.

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Frank McCallister SBS MVP
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"cjupiter" <cjupiter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Have win2k3 server running with 5 xp machines connected to a domain. A
> win98
> machine has also been setup to be part of the domain, by setting it up to
> connect to a workgroup of the same name as the domain server. Plus DS
> client
> has been already installed on win98 pc. Problem i am having is that only 2
> xp
> machines can browse the win98 pc while the rest of the xp machines cant.
>
> Now clues are
>
> Win2k3 server already has accounts setup for all machines. All acounts are
> identical. Computer clients are also added for all machines on win2k3
> server.
> Now there used to be an xp machine in place of the win98 machine.
> Everything
> was working fine then but ever since win98 machine became part of the
> domain
> (well not really, just setup so it can browse the active directory), the
> xp
> machines could not browse the win98 machine. Then somebody did something
> to a
> couple of the xp machines to make them be able to access the xp machines.
> I
> dont know what they did, but i need to know.
>
> I noticed when i changed the password of the xp machines that can access
> the
> win98 machine, after i input the password and logged in the machine then
> asked me for a windows password which was the same as the password before
> i
> changed it. Hope this bit of information can help anybody to help my
> situation.
>
> Thankyou for any help.


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