[cdavid]

I am completely new when it comes to servers, so if this is a dumb question, please
forgive me.

A friend of mine recently gave me an old computer with Win2000 Prof. on it. I was
planning on using it for a simple home file server.
After changing the WORKGROUP name on the computer I was able to access the other
computers that I have on the network. When I tried to access this new computer
using my XP and W98, however, it came up wanting a user name and password
for XP, and for my W98 it asked for a password to connect to //...../IPC$ (which I
have no idea where IPC$ came from). I've tried any number of passwords that I've
used with these machines and I am still unable to access W2000.

Does anyone know the reason for this, and if so, what is the best way to correct it?

Any help at all would be welcome. Thank you.

[IcemanND]

IPC$ is a default share created by the OS. And if there are no other shared folders created that is the only thing to connect to. It is after an account name and password on the Windows 2000 system that has access to that share.

[cdavid]

ok.... On the Windows 2000 system I went into Control Panel > Users and Passwords,
and I added a new user account and password for it. I'm now able to access the shared
directory from my XP by logging onto it with the new user name and password that
I created. But I'm still unable to log onto it with my W98 system. All it asks for is
the password. Where do I give the login name?

[Tripredacus]

You can try to enable the Guest account on Windows 2000.

Also found this idea on another place:

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here is what you should do to access the shares you created on win2k machine from win9x machines:
from the win9x machine click start-logoff, after the logoff you will see a box with the default user that logs on to your win9x machine probably with no password... record this user name.
go to the win2k machine , right click my computer, click manage , open local users and groups , open users - add new user by the name of the default user from the win9x machine - eith no password and password never expires.
now just give this user permissions to the share on the win2k machine.
good luck.

http://my.brandeis.edu/bboard/q-and-a-fetc...g?msg_id=0001S8

[cdavid]

Thanks, I was finally able to get all of my computers connected to the file server.
Your solution was really helpful and got me going in the right direction.

Thanks for everything!