well I help with the 2nd problem - as to the first I've ssen it happen on many Win2k trying to acceess shares on Win98/ME.
I think it has something to do with the way netbios calls work in 9x and ME comparing to Win2k.

not to the password problem.

You see, in a peer-to-peer network configuration (no domain) the security scheme is known as Share level security.

Win98 can work either in User level security (with domain) or Share level but WinNT and Win2k work only in User level security.

In order to access the shares on the Win2k machine you must enable the Guset account.

to do that:
1. r.click "my computer" and select Manage
2. go to local users and groups - users
3. enable the Guest Account ( you can give it a password..)
4. to each share you need to add the guest user with the permissions you want.




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