Networking gurus - I also need some help!
 

Not wanting to hijack gr8fl4porsche's earlier thread......

I have 4 machines on a home network with modem and network printer on machine1. Machines1 - 3 are Win2K, but machine4 is WinME (sigh, I know, but it hangs when I try to install W2K, maybe hardware issues), all fresh installations. The three W2K machines are able to network print and internet connect, I can also browse all shared drives just fine. Machine4 (with WinME), however, asks for a password for \\machine1\ipc$ whenever I try to connect to a shared drive or print to the network printer. It "sees" the other machines in network neighborhood, but cannot connect without asking for this dang password. I tried every password of every user/administrator on all machines but no dice. Is the problem on machine1 or machine4?

All machines are virus free according to Trend Micro.

Any advice, please?

LeRoux

Win2k and XP default to encrypted passwords, Win9x and ME do not use them. Which is why you can't authenticate from ME to 2k.

LeRoux,

On your WinME machine, create a user profile similar to one of the accounts you use on the other machines and log into the WinME.

For instance, if you have an account for "LaRoux" with a password of "strydom" on one of the W2K machines, create an account using the same information on the WinME machine.

Use this account when you start the WinME machine and you should be able to see the other machines and use their resources.

Hope this helps!

Randy

Thanks Randy, that did the trick!

I thought I had the users set up correctly on the W2k machine, but re-checking them per your suggestion revealed a typo. Major duh!

LeRoux

Happy to hear you're up and running again! I guess the next step would be to upgrade that WinME machine to either 2K or XP. (Argh, I'm just not a fan of ME... :( )

Cheers!

Randy

LeRoux Strydom - If you want to really upgrade, I'll walk you thru a Linux install via the pelican IRC server - Debian or Fedora Core, your choice.

id10t,

Is that an open invitation?

I've got several flavors of Windows installed on various PCs on my home network, pretty much everything from 2K Pro to 2003 Server, but I have no experience at all with Windows.

If you wouldn;t mind, I'd love to hear some pointers for installing and configuring Linux. :)

Randy

Randy, I don't play with Linux very much (no time to learn another OS) but Sussi (spelling?) 8.0 was a snap to install. Throw the CD into the drive and accept all the defaults. It will even find a Linksys wireless card. That's the good news. The bad news is that from there, eveything is foreign. For me, the re-education is tough.

Okay, Hal. I'm gonna follow your lead. I am downloading Suse Linux 9.2 from here.. I'll burn it to CD-ROM and then try the install. Wish me luck! :D

Randy

Good luck Randy! I need to do the same. Let me know how it goes.