>>>>>>>>I have two computers connected to the same Linksys router. When I run IPCONFIG on one I see IP address 192.168.2.100, the other one is 192.168.2.101. In the My Computer -> System Properties both computers have the same name in Workgoup "MYCOMPANY". One computer is XP and another Win2000. How do I access shared drives from one computer (XP) on the other computer (Win2000)?
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>>>>>>>Which machine contains the drives you want to share - the XP or the W2K?
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>>>>>>W2k has the driver that I want to share; that it, have access to it from XP.
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>>>>>Have you already created the share on the W2K machine?
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>>>>I did. Here is how I did it. On Win 2000 I selected properties of the D: drive and checked the option to Share this folder.
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>>>OK, that's good. Assuming:
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>>>- your W2K machine's name is "W2K"
>>>- the share name you just created is "D"
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>>>By default a share has read-only access, you may want to set that to read-write if necessary.
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>>>Then, on the XP machine, in a CMD window you should be able to issue
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>>>NET USE Z: \\W2K\D /persistent:y
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>>>If there is a user account on the W2K machine with the same name and password as the XP account you're currently logged in as on the XP machine, this should just work. If there is not such an account on the W2K machine, you will have to supply logon credentials.
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>>>In a peer-to-peer network, each machine is its own "domain". So, if you are asked to supply credentials to access a resource on the W2K machine, you need to specify both the account name and password for that computer.
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>>>User Name: W2K\AccountName . The W2K\ prefix is important.
>>>Password: < password >
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>>One more point (I don't know if it matters though), both PCs (XP and Win 2000) don't have passwords. When I boot them, I simply click on Login without entering password.
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>You may need to know the account name you're logging on as on the W2K machine. You can get this by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del and looking at the Logon Information section. If your password is blank and you are asked for this on the XP box, just press < Enter >.

So far, when trying to access XP from W2k, I have never been asked for user name and password. I thought that if I type in the IE the HTTP://192.168.2.101 I would be prompted for user name and password but it does not.