2000 to XP Connetion trouble.

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I am having trouble connecting to an XP Pro machine from
my Windows 2000 machine via "My Network Places".

Both PC's are part of the same workgroup, and I can see the
XP machine in the workgroup, but when I am prompted for a
user name and password, I get the error "Incorrect
Password or Unknown Username"... I've tried to use the
regular user account name and password as well as
the "Administrator" account and password.
The "regular" user account is also a member of
the "Administrators" group.
 
XP requires that you do not use a blank password for network access/logon. Also keep
in mind that passwords are case sensitive and try changing the password on the
account on the XP machine and trying again. You could also try enabling the guest
account on the XP machine temporarily to see if that allows you to get access
assuming the resource has everyone permissions. If you still can not get access as
guest, you may have a problem with incomparability in security options such as smb
signing or lan manager authentication level. Also make sure the built in XP firewall
is disabled making sure you have other firewall protection for the network. --- Steve
 
Thank you for the quick reply Steve.

I have tried those things, to no avail.

Actually I should be more specific about my problem...
I am trying basically to access the hidden share of the
C drive. As in "\\computername\c$" without having to
actually share the entire drive.

From XP to XP machine I have no trouble what so ever...
I just type that into the address bar, input username and
password when prompted and viola. But for some reason when
I do the exact same thing from 2000 to XP I get the above
mentioned problem.

Thanks again for your assistance,

Thad
-----Original Message-----
XP requires that you do not use a blank password for
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network access/logon. Also keep
in mind that passwords are case sensitive and try changing the password on the
account on the XP machine and trying again. You could also try enabling the guest
account on the XP machine temporarily to see if that allows you to get access
assuming the resource has everyone permissions. If you still can not get access as
guest, you may have a problem with incomparability in security options such as smb
signing or lan manager authentication level. Also make sure the built in XP firewall
is disabled making sure you have other firewall
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protection for the network. --- Steve
 
What happens when you use the net use command such as " net use z
\\computername\c$ password /u:username " . Have you changed any security
options on any of your machine or imported any security templates? It might
help to enable auditing of logon events for success and failure on the XP
box and look in the security log in Event Viewer to see if any logon
failures give helpful information. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q248260 -- same for
XP.
 
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