As per Bighit's note.....I have a similar problem, but in place of XP I'm running windows 98 -- get the same prompt for a u/n and p/w when trying to access Windows 2000 system through Network Neighbourhood. All systems including Win2K are running FAT32. ================================= Name: Bighit Date: November 04, 2003 at 09:03:19 Pacific Subject: Windows 2000 and XP in a Workgroup OS: Windows 2000 Pro. -- SP1 CPU/Ram: 256 Comment: Hi guys I was wondering if you guys can help me out. I've setup 3 systems in a workgroup 1 Windows 2000 System 2 Windows XP Pro. From the Windows 2000 system, I can access and browse the XP Computers......from the XP systems I can see the WIN2K computer, but am prompted to type in a username/password when trying to access the computer. I've tried a combination of the Admin logon for 2000 and XP, but would not let me in. I do have Netbeui installed and verified that they were all on the same Workgroup......I can ping each system -- by the way I'm going through a Linksys Router.....Please Help or Advise -- Thanks a Bunch.

There are several ways to solve this. The file system and the router are NOT the issue here. The easiest way is to create the SAME account on both pc's.. and then create a "different" share with the proper permissions..right click on the folder or drive you want to share, add the "account" you wnt to access it with, and configure your permissions from there. There is also a way to do this by enabling the guest account...as well as enabling sharing out to everyone...but for obvious security reasons, I wouldnt suggest it.