Merging Win98 and Win2000 on local network

[egims]

I have recently purchased a laptop running Windows 2000 Professional. I am attempting to mate it with a local home network that has no domain and is running Windows 98 on the other 2 machines.

After some setup I have the Windwos 98 computers able to see the Windows 2000 laptop, and vice versa. The Windows 2000 laptop can access the hard drives of the other computers as desired, but the Windows 98 machines can only see the existance of the Windows 2000 laptop drive C:, but can not gain access (see any directories or files).

I have checked the permissions for the laptop drives and they are set to "shared access for all".

What am I missing? Why can't the other machines on the network access the Windows 2000 laptop drive C:?

Ed

 

[hexn]

All right, this is an interesting question.

Win2000 is absolutely secure in the best/worst way. The ONLY way to get access to a share folder on your laptop is if someone has signed onto the LAN with a username and password that is on your laptop.

For example. On your laptop, you would go to Control Panel, Admin Tools, Comp Mngmnt, Users and Groups. You would set up a user named "joe" with password "letmein". Then you make sure "joe" has access privileges to the shared drive. NOW you go to a Win98 machine and you set the network properties to "Client for Microsoft Networks" and when the computer asks for a username and password on bootup, you enter "joe" and "letmein".

If you do that, you will have access to the C drive.

ALSO, by default, the Win2K machine is sharing all its drives under the share name c$. The $ makes it a hidden share. Or maybe that is just Win2K Server? Cant remember. Anyhoo, give that a try and let me know how it goes.