>> "Hate to tell you this, but the link given has absolutely no relationship to 2000/XP/2003, only Vista/Win7." "This is for all the pals who got IPC$ Password Prompt while connecting a windows 95/98/ME machine to another windows 2000/XP/2003 machine in LAN, i.e. networking between NT & non-NT machine." I'm no expert, I can only go on what's written ^ >> "you misunderstood the links "workgroup-name"" Ah yep, thanks. Anyone else not used to this stuff could make the same mistake I guess. If nothing else it might help them get it right too Oh well, I got mine working, I'll leave the rest for the experts