Greetings David and list --
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From: "David Gillett" <[log in to unmask]>



>   The best way to provide access to shared resources is with a domain, a
> shared accounts/passwords/permissions database.  But you need to dedicate
at
> least one (and preferably two) NT/2K servers to this job, so it's not
very
> practical for a small home network.

As stated in the original post, the network is peer-to-peer, much though
I might prefer to have a NT/2K server "in the mix."

>   The next best choice is to make sure that the accounts you use exist on
> all of the machines in your network, preferably with the same password on
> any selected account name on every machine.  I suspect this is what has
> broken -- the user account you log into on the 98SE machine either
doesn't
> exist on the gateway machine, or exists but has a different password set.

Having run into this problem once before when young daughters inadvertently
created new users with different passwords (or changed passwords), this was
the first thing I verified.  All users and passwords match.

>   (There's another related possibility.  By default, out of the box, 2K
> supports both its own secure protocol for sharing "credentials" and the
> older NTLM protocol.  There's an option to turn off NTLM, since it's not
as
> secure as the new protocol.  Unfortunately, 98 speaks only NTLM.  If
someone
> turned off NTLM support in an effort to "harden" the box, that could be
the
> problem.)
>

In case this is the problem, how would I go about "turning on" the
NTLM protocol?
> David Gillett
>
>
> On 14 Aug 2003, at 8:09, Paul A. Shippert wrote:
>
> > Greetings list--
> >
> > I have recently encountered a browsing problem with a small home
> > peer-to-peer
> > network.  It consists of three computers (Win98SE, and two WinXP Pro),
a
> > switch, and a cable modem.  All three computers used to be able to see
> > shared
> > folders and share a common printer attached to one of the XP machines,
> > which,
> > with two network cards, acted as the Internet Connection Sharing
computer.
> > The Windows 98 computer will now access only the one XP computer (the
> > non-Internet sharing one), but is still able to browse the web and get
> > e-mail
> > through the sharing computer.  When one double-clicks the icon for the
> > sharing
> > computer or tries to connect to a shared printer on it, one is prompted
for
> > a
> > password to access \\<computer name>\IPC$.  A number of system services
> > are protected by the OS logging on as NT AUTHORITY\Network Services,
> > an 'account' which does have a password identified by 15 dots.
> > Is this situation connected?
> >
> > I have run the network setup wizard on all machines, which is how they
were
> > set up in the first place.  This has had no effect.
> >
> > Any ideas short of building a new XP box?  (The other XP box has no
trouble
> > accessing and using the Internet Connection Sharing computer's
resources.)
> >
> > Paul A. Shippert
> > Library Media Specialist
> > Margaret Brent Middle School
>
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