In article <64F7913C-5698-461D-BAC3-1F7C4091F1DC@microsoft.com>,
Chivas <Chivas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>This is a repeat of a previous question. I stopped getting responses to it.
>
>I have a Win98SE machine connected to an XP Home SP1 machine. They were 1st
>networked in March of 2004 and worked happily together for over a year,
>sharing an internet connection and a printer connected to the the XP machine
>and sharing all files and folders. Neither required a password on bootup.
>
>That happy circumstance ended in June of this year when the hard drive
>crashed on my XP machine. After installing a new HDD and reinstalling XP, I
>tried to restore the network. The XP machine sees the 98 machine just fine,
>has access to files, etc. The 98 machine cannot get access to the XP
>machine. It always tells me I need a Network password and says " Resource:
>\\computername\IPC$". I also cannot use the printer. That box says
>"Resource: \\computername\printername".
>
>Each computer can ping the other by IP address and by name. I can see the
>network from the 98 machine but cannot access the XP machine. The hardware
>is fine and works well. The problem, I've been told elsewhere, is that the
>XP won't give permission to the 98 for access. I can't find figure out how
>to change this, and the advice I get everywhere doesn't work.
>
>Hope somebody can help.
Run the Network Setup Wizard on the XP machine (and only on that
machine, even if the Wizard tells you to run it on the other one).
That might be all that's needed to fix the problem.
If not, these steps on the XP machine should fix it by enabling the
Guest account for networked access and removing its password:
1. Click Start | Run, type "cmd" in the box, and click OK.
2. Type this command and press Enter:
net user guest /active:yes
3. Type this command and press Enter:
control userpasswords2
4. Click Guest.
5. Click Reset Password.
6. Click OK without entering a new password.
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