Re: Accessing Shares on Workgroup

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_nospam-comcast.net)
Date: 08/25/04

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    In a workgroup you need to have the user account logon/password in each Windows 2000
    and Windows 2003 computer that you want to access shares on that computer that
    matches the user logon/password of the user logged onto the computer trying to access
    the share unless you enable the guest account which is not recommended unless all
    users are 100 percent trusted and the computer has a properly configured firewall to
    protect the network from the internet.

    Other things to check for starts are that the built in ICF firewall is disabled on
    the W2003 server assuming another firewall is protecting it from the internet and
    that it is on the same network as the other computers that you should verify by using
    ping with computer name and IP address as shown by Ipconfig /all. On a typical class
    C network the first three octets of the IP address for each computer should be the
    same as in 192.168.0.xxx with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. Also running nbtstat -n
    on the Windows 2003 computer should show at least three entries as registered names
    [ with <00> and <20> for computer name] showing that the workstation and server
    services are running and netbios over tcp/ip is enabled. --- Steve

    "Bradley M. Small" <BSmall@XNOSPAMXmjsi.com> wrote in message
    news:uEV2FtqiEHA.2764@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
    >I have Windows 2003 Server setup on a machine in a small 5 computer network.
    > All the other machines are running either 2000 professional, except one that
    > is running 98.
    >
    > There is no domain, and they are all members of the workgroup WORKGROUP
    > (imaginitive name eh?)
    >
    > Between the other machines I can access the administrative shares as well as
    > the explicit shares. However, I can neither access shares ON nor FROM the
    > 2003 machine.
    >
    > What am I doing wrong?
    >
    >

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