>i Have a machine that is being connected to LAN, My Lan is Based on WorkGroup, i have installed Win2k in one of my machine, and done all the ip addressing to get in to LAN, from this (Win2k) i can access all machines in my LAN, but the problem is when from another machines from LAN (Where in every PC Win98 is installed) i try to access this Win2k Machine the Machine ask for IPC$ Password.
>that i don't have or don't know. my LAn doesn't have any searver pls note. can anyone help me for the Password or any thing i can do to connect another machines to this Win2k machine. please help me.
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You have to authenticate any user accessing the Win2K system - if no specific userid and password is given, the Win98 box will attempt to log in using the current user's Windows Login userid and password. That userid must actually exist on the Win2K system (since you don't have a server to provide authentication for it instead) and it must be granted the necessary priveleges to use resources attached to the Win2K system.

IPC$ is the generic interprocess communications resource for Win2K; it's likely that (1) you don't have accounts set up properly on the Win2K system, and (2) that you haven't properly shared anything on the Win2K system. Unlike Win9x, Win2K only lets users that have specifically been assigned accounts to access it; if you attempt to access it from another system without speccifying a userid and passowrd, Win9x will attempt to connect using the current user's Windows Login ID and password - if either or both are invalid, you'll be asked to provide a password before it will let you access it. It's not going to allow unauthenticated access the way Win9x does.