Accessing Win98 Shared Drive from XP machine

[rclendenon]

I can not seem to access a shared drive on a Windows 98 machine from my Windows XP machine. I can, however, access my Windows XP machine from the Windows 98 machine. Any suggestions? Below is some additional info:

1. I am able to ping the Win98 machine using both computer name and IP address

2. I can see the Win 98 shared drive in "My Network Places" on the Windows XP machine

Thanks in advance for any help

 

[caffrinho]

You haven't mentioned if you get any error messages, it may help us!
anyway, try to connect using the 'net use' command from a command prompt.
type (without quotes)

"net use F: \\computername\sharename"

{make sure you use an available drive letter!!}

if that fails, try it again but with the IP-Address instead of the computername.

Good luck!

 

[rclendenon]

I discovered this morning that if I remove the password from the Windows 98 shared drive I am able to access it just fine from Windows XP. If I leave the drive password protected then when I try to access it from XP I get a dialog box with the username greyed out prompting for a password. When I type the password and it enter nothing seems to happen. Any ideas?

 

[caffrinho]

I need some more info...

Do these PC's participate in a domain environment?
Has the win98 PC been set up for Share-level access?

 

[mithrilhall]

Dumb question but, do they belong to the same workgroup?

 

[nms42]

I have exactly the same problem...I can't remove the password from the shared drive for security reasons but I need to be able to browse the Win98 hard drives. I hope someone out there has an answer. Mapping the drive would be way too cumbersome...I have over 100 PC's that I need to be able to check on. We use DHCP so I don't specifically know the IP addresses of each PC without checking first. Why can't it just work the way it used to in Win 98?

 

[rjkrash]

Remote Access Authentication Process


Corporate computers on secured networks are typically members of the domain. In Windows XP this means that the credentials the user presents when logging on to the computer are verified against the domain controller before granting the user access to the computer. As a result, these are the same credentials needed to satisfy network resources.

To assist in the single-credential case for computers that are members of a domain, network connections in Windows XP can be configured to present the user's logon credentials to the remote access server. This eliminates the need to supply explicit credentials for the remote access server. Since the logon credentials are the same as the user's domain credentials, the same credentials satisfy resource challenges from the network.

However, computers outside the workplace (such as home computers), are generally not members of a domain, so the user logon credentials that unlock the computer do not provide access to the domain. There are also cases in which a remote access server requires credentials that are independent of the network domain's credentials. In this scenario, you would have to provide three different credentials in order to log on to the computer, connect to the remote network, and then access resources on that network.

As a solution, Windows XP includes Stored User Names and Passwords, which is specifically designed to handle this need for multiple credentials. Whenever you are asked to provide credentials for a network resource, Stored User Names and Passwords keeps a record of the server name and domain name that requested these credentials. In addition, the user can manually enter credentials for a specific server or for a domain. When the computer is challenged again, it will search the Stored User Names and Passwords to find credentials that match the same server or, failing that, the same domain. This approach allows the system to learn the necessary set of credentials over time and can be used to enable successful remote access to any network.

Windows XP incorporates another approach to handle the most common remote access scenario for computers outside the workplace. This scenario involves a non-domain computer attempting to access a remote network in which the remote access server requires the same domain credentials as do the network resources. To handle this case, the remote access components of Windows XP add a temporary entry to the Stored User Names and Passwords on a successful connection so that the remote access server credentials can be used as default credentials when no other credentials match a resource challenge. This change will allow a Windows XP Home Edition computer (or any other computer) to connect to domain networks that are configured in this way.

To store a new user name and password
Open Stored User Names and Passwords.
Click Add and type the information in the spaces that are provided.

Note: Open User Accounts, click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click User Accounts.

If your computer is joined to a domain, click the Advanced tab, then click Manage Passwords.

If your computer is not joined to a domain, click your account name and then, in Related Tasks box, click Manage my network passwords.

You must be logged on as a computer administrator to complete this procedure.


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