My friend has a home computer with windows 98 install connected to two printers which are both shared. His home network is very simple, just a cable internet connection passing through a linksys wireless access router/switch. He can connect to the internet with his work laptop running windows 2000 through a wireless connection with no problem and that part works great however, He cannot see the two printers or any of the shared files on the desktop. He keeps getting a message that there is no password authenticating server avalible when he trys to connect. There has to be a setting somewhere that he has missed because when I use my company laptop with XP it can see and connect to the printers with no problem. Both of our laptops have our company domain setting the same, on the home system we named the workgroup the same as our company domain, any ideas? Please HELP...

One of the NICs might have authentication enabled. Go into the Network config dialog and search through the settings until you find it. I think your Windows 2000 laptop has this enabled so it tries to search the Windows 98 computer, which either doesn't support it or doesn't have it enabled. James ;)