>the entire Win NT logon procedure is normal on the win 98 workstation, but I can't share my folders yet. what is the problem, the one solution I have found is to reinstall windows 98.Is there another less drastic way?

So you have a NT Domain setup, correct? And users are logging into the NT Domain at startup, right? If you don't login, you can't access shares on the domain.
Are you saying you can't share folders on the Win98 machines? Do you have File/Print Sharing enabled in the Network Properties?

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