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.

You have to enable net logon

Netlogon is what is promting him. Bighit, what file system are you running on each machine? Are both machines running NTFS, or FAT32 or a mixure? This could be a permission problem. You don't need NetBeui, IP will work fine and if it is prompting for a password, you must be making it to the other machine. Make sure you have a user on each machine with the same username and password. For example make user called TEST on both machine and give that user the same password on each machine. MAke that users and administrator of each machine and then log in as that user on each machine and try it as see what happens. Let us know. Good luck. Glen

In the workgroup each PC needs/must have a valid account on each of the other PCs in the group. Each of these individual PC accounts can have the same login/password as used to logon locally to each indivdual PC in the group. $IPC InterProcessCommunication is the way any member of the NT family (NT/W2K/XP) asks if you are known there; are you allowed in; are you a member; i.e. do you have a valid account (for whichever PC is seeking access to resources on that particular (NT/W2K/XP) PC). Create accounts on each of the three PCs' for each of the other two PCs, so that each PC has accounts for the other two. Unless you need tcp/ip, just use netbeui; faster/simplest to use, least demanding on resources (was designed originally for simple workgroup environments - and yours is pretty simple...). tcp/ip is needed if intending to use ICS for sharing isp access; (netbeui is non-routable so cannot be used to share an isp etc.) Then all you have to do is to decide/set your level of permissions (remember fat23/ntfs have differing levels of control) - if that's appropriate in your situation (a home lan?).

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 the Windows 2000 system through Network Neighbourhood. All systems including Win2K are running FAT32.

Chad: Create an account for the 98 system on the W2K system (via User Manager). Use the same logon/password for this '98 account that you use to logon locally to the '98 PC. An excellent tutorial site for basic (and upwards) M$ OS networking: http://www.helmig.com

Windows 2000 has decent network support, Windows 98 is useless. Therefore, they are difficult to get working together. I'd suggets you upgrade your Win98 machine(s) to Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP Professional (Home Edition at a push), then the computers should talk fine (assuming you follow the advice in previous posts). Windows NT 4.0 Workstation is almost identical to 2000 (but no pretty boot logo or eyecandy, just a blue boot screen, Win95 interface and you need to install most drivers manually), so maybe you could give NT4 a go if the Win98 machines won't run Win2000. Win98's useless for networking (and for pretty much everything else in mine and several friends' experience). Go for Win2k/XP and your computers should integrate perfectly, will 'talk the same language' and should almost never crash. Win98's also got the problem that it sometimes crashes on shutdown if there are drives mapped, can stop responding if a share becomes unavailable, and can't handle 512MB or more RAM.