I frequently use a much simpler one, though it involves a little more
typing.

I frequently want to use drive mapping on my home network to turn
a drive or folder on one machine into a drive on the other.  Let's say
I'm sitting at the machine called whatsis, logged in as whosis, and
I want to use a drive on whatever, where the only user account
available to me is whatshisname.  When I tell the gadget in whatsis
where to map to, it sends me to a login screen where I log into the
second machine as whatshisname, using whatshisname's
password.  My local machine has no objection to the fact that I'm
logged into him as whosis and onto the network as whatshisname.
The remote machine, of course, knows nothing about my local
login, except that it has no user account by that name.  Of course,
whatshisname needs the appropriate rights and permissions to log
in remotely and use whatever resources he wants.

I'm not sure, but I think that if you check the box that says
something like 'log in every session', the local machine will even
automatically make a login script for you, so you don't have to do
the typing every time.

I don't think that you need MS file sharing to do this; I seem to
remember having done it with FTP and Telnet.  Whenever your
local application gets a message from the remote box that you
have to log in, the local application will supply you with a login box
to do it, and you just type in the data for some account on the
remote machine.

Good luck.
David Jonathan Justman

On 20 Oct 2002, at 9:31, Peter Shkabara peter-at-GTEMAIL.NET
|NoSp wrote:

> To access the win2k machine, you need to be authenticated. Here is one
> way to do it. If your login user names for the Win98 and win2k
> machines are different, then you need to create a user account on one
> of them to match the other. Once you have a common user name, type in
> the win2k password for that user when you are prompted. If anyone has
> a simpler solution, I would be interested in hearing other options
> myself.
>
> Peter
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> -----Original Message-----
> enabled the sharing feature on both computers drives, etc. After
> bootup, my desktop can 'see' the laptop's C drive and the laptop can
> see the desktop's drives. The laptop can access the contents of the
> desktop's drives but not vice versa. The desktop give me an error
> message that I need to enter a password to access the laptop's C
> drive. I have tried everything that
>
> Jean Bourvic
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