There are 2 Windows 2000 professional machines in my company. I found that these machines cannot access shared folder (share level access) on Windows 95 machine. The same go true for Windows 95 machine accessing the shared folder on Windows 2000 machines. There is no problem for NT/95/98 machines accessing shared folders on NT/95/98. Has anyone experience this kind of problem. Please advice. My LAN use NT 4 as the primary domain controller. The problem can only be solved if the shared folder is shared to "the World" on Windows 95 machine.

Can you browse to the computer in Network Neighborhood or My Network Places? Do you have a WINS server on your LAN? DNS Server? From the W2K machine, have you tried, Start, Run, \\computername\share? In order for any of the other systems to access, they have to have permission. Is this a Domain or Workgroup? If Domain, then obviously you have to have logged onto the machince with a valid Domain user account and have been granted permission on the W2K shared folder. If Workgroup, then you will have to have a valid user account on the W2K machine and log onto the Win95/98 machine with the same user credentials. On the NT machine, if you don't log onto the NT4 machine with a valid account, you will be prompted for user credentials.

I have to make a correction: all Win 95 and 98 machines are on user-level access sharing, not share level access stated in my posting. I can browse to the computer, see the shared folder, but once double-clicking on the folder, the "access is denied" error appeared. Note that there were sometimes a can access the share and read and write files but only for a while. I am working in a domain. I am logging on as a valid domain account (Note that there is no problem for Win 95 machine reading share on Win 95 machine when I logged on to both machines using my username, problem only happen if one of the machine is W2000). I have verified that the permission is set correctly. For example, if I log on to a Windows 95 machine through NT domain using my username (e.g sing chung), share the My documents to the user "sing Chung" for full access, and when I log on to W2K on the same domain using my username "sing Chung", I cannot access the share when I browse through network neighbourhood, to the Windows 95 machine and to the My documents folder. I am not using DCHP, no WINS, so typing \\computername\shared folder wont yield anything. I hope that other users can try simulate this problem. Since both the W2K machines here are behaving this way, I am very worried.

W2K needs DNS. Have you tried using \\ipaddress\sharename ? What NICs do you have in the W2K computer? Do you have NetBIOS enable over TCP/IP in the Advance Properties of TCP/IP? If you are able to "sometimes" connect and other times you cannot--usually means you need to update the BIOS or the NIC is not on the HCL. Feel free to email me at w2kstud@yahoo.com if you still need help. I can get your questions answered a lot faster.

I have experienced the same problem as Sing Chung in one of my workgroups on my network. I recently installed a W2K machine in the workgroup and it has no problem accessing folders from the Win98 machines, but it has a problem with the only Win95 workstation. The funny thing is that 3 of the folders shared are okay I can access them anytime but 4 other folders cause a problem.

I am having the same problem trying to access a shared folder on a Windows 95 machine from a Windows 2000 machine. I also get the Access Denied message. If I assign Everyone Full Control on the 95 machine, it works. Otherwise granting a specific user permission, it does not. Your comments would be appreciated. Thanks, Roger

Hi, I'm having a similar problem. I'm running a network with a 95 computer and a 2000 prof computer. I can fully explore the 2000 from the 95 but can't do it the other way. I'm trying to use user-level access control (because when it prompts me for a password in win 2k when using "password access control" it asks for a username as well and whatever I put it wont accept).So i tried to set it up so that it looked on the 2000 machine for the user list. I figured it should behave like an NT machine since that's what 2K is built on. What am i doing wrong? Thanks Ythordo