Re: Connecting Windows 95 and 98 to a windows 2000 network resource

From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 08/30/04


Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:37:12 -0400

Hi - create all user accounts and passwords identically on all computers.

Note - your post was kind of hard to read. Best to separate your text into
multiple paragraphs where appropriate - if you make things easy for people
to read, they're more likely to help! Pretend your newsgroup posts are essay
assignments for your English class and that you have a strict teacher. :-)

Ahmed wrote:
> Well my problems goes like this...recently at home i have
> purchased a 5th PC and decided to make a network between
> them, its a work group network soeach PC has its own
> shared folders and so on....the PC are 2 windows 2000
> servers, a windows xp professional and a windows 95 and a
> windows 98,so far after i have made the connect all the
> computers can see each other on the my network
> neighborhood and network places...the windows 2000
> computers can access all the other computers without any
> problems the windows xp can access all the other computers
> without any problem, but the windows 98 and 95 simply
> cannot acess the windows 2000 computers though they can
> easily access the windows XP one, anyways now when i try
> to gain access to any computer running the windows 2000
> server it asks for the users password (the user name of
> the windows 2000 server computer) when type the right
> password it seems it says its an inncorrect password
> though this error message is recieved faster then usual i
> feel there is actually no interaction between any of the
> windows 95/98 computers with the windows 2000 servers. and
> also i would like to know how am i able to solve this
> problem is there something specific i need to download for
> win 98 or the 95 and i would also like to removing the
> option which asks for a users password everytime i want to
> access a windows 2000 server resources.
>
> thank you,
> Ahmed



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