I am setting up a couple of XP machines on a network of Windows 98. I'm running a W2K server. I have all the Win98 pc harddrives shared with a password for full access. When I look through the network neighborhood on the XP pc, I can see all the workgroups and all the individual 98 pc's. I can even get to see the C folder on their harddrive but when I try to browse their harddrive I get a prompt for the password. The username is greyed out but it shows a guest account. When I put in the password that is on the Win98 harddrive nothing ever happens. I get no error message or anything. It just doesn't connect. Any ideas on what needs to be done to access the harddrive files of the Win98 pc?
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Network Neighborhood
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If you're not in a domain setup and you're using Win2k/XP machines along with 9x clients as well, you need to be sure that the 9x machines have an account that is identical to the machine attempting to gain access. In other words, create the same account and password on every machine in the workgroup and then attempt to gain access.
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