In my case they are physically connected to the router as well. When you map a drive letter on one PC to a share on another, it's soemtimes called connecting too. Sorry for the confusion.

If when you power up you are actually logging on as administrator, then I am at a loss as to why that you did, did not work. I suppose you could try adding a password to the administrator accounts. That way, when you are logged on, you know you are logged on as administrator. I seem to remember operating systems from the past used to ask for a password and if you didn't enter it, it could be set up so that it allowed you on the computer, but only as a guest. Something like that might be set up on your PC.

I've used a password on accounts for so long that it also would not be a surprise to me if windows turns off sharing if the administrator password isn't set.

Mark made a good point about the IP address. His suggestion about a static IP address is a good one, but I don't think that is your problem. You are powered up and you know your IP address. You should be able to map OK even if DHCP was used. His point guards you from the problem of working OK and then not working OK because the IP addresses changed because of DHCP.

In my case I use DHCP, but the computer that I have on the first port is always powered up and always the same address. The IP address of the other computers do not matter to me.

Hope this helps and let us know what happens. I'll check back with the UT tomorrow, but then I won't be back until Monday.


>You said XP machine that connects to a Win 2000 box. In my case, both Win XP and Win 2000 are connected to the router, and not to each other. Unless you mistyped, or I misunderstood you.
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>I login into both computers as an Administrator (without entering any password), yet I still can't connect from one to the other using the command \\IP at the command prompt. I think in your case you actually have a user name and password when you log into the Win 2000 box. I have not set up a password when I installed the OS. So when I boot up my PC, I simply click Ok on the logon window.
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>>I have a similar setup, but going the other way. I have a linksys router and an XP machine that connects to a Win 2000 box. I have an administrator logon on the 2000 box and log on from the XP box using it. You also have to have something shared, or you could map to
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>>To get the entire drive C. If you logon as administrator, you don't have to share it.
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>>Like Borislav said, that IP you mentioned might be the router. But, I don't think it is. I think to get the routers menu, you actually go to a browser and enter "localhost" or something like that. The book tells you exactly. The logon is either Admin or administrator and the password is blank.
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>>>I have two computers connected to a linksys router. One computer using Win 2000, another Win XP. Both computers can access internet, no problem. I also want to be able to map drives on one computer to anther.
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>>>Here is how I connect from one computer to another (please tell me if this is a wrong approach):
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>>>On Win2000 computer, on command prompt, I type the IP address of the other computer (which is Win XP) as follows:
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>>>\\192.168.1.100
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>>>This brings a dialog box "Enter Network Password" where there are two fields:
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>>>Connect As ___
>>>Password   ___
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>>>But I didn't set up any user names or passwords on neither of these two computers. And when I start each one of the computers, I have no password to type.
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>>>Do I need to have user accounts on the there two computers in order to make them part of a small network?
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>>>Thank you for any suggestions.