Subj : Networking with NT and Win 98
To   : All
From : Michael Grant
Date : Mon Dec 23 2002 10:20 pm

Hello Everyone;

23 Dec 02 21:25, I wrote to you:

 MG> quite well, and can map the drives to itself, I have trouble trying to
 MG> get a logon from the Win 98 machines to the NT machine. It seems the
 MG> NT machine asks for a password for the IPC$ share, but I see no way to
 MG> configure the password for this share, nor to set up an account on the
 MG> NT machine that will allow NT to recognize connections from the Win 98
 MG> machines and give them access to this share. I find the NT user
 MG> manager confusing and not very helpful.

Never mind... I figured it out. (isn't that always the way, you figure it out 
right after you get frustrated enough to ask for help?)

I needed to set up an "Administrator" account on the Win 98 machines, and log 
in as that, instead of as "Michael Grant". (I suppose if I added "Michael 
Grant" to the NT machine's "Administrators" user group, that would work, 
too...)

For those who were wondering, I have no domain controller, since it's an NT 
Workstation. Peer-to-peer is the only way to network the computers, using 
workgroups instead of domains. I may later try using a Linux box as a PDC using 
Samba; it's supposed to work very well with NT as well as Win 9x machines.


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