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.

  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.
  (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.)

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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