David, This is an area where you have more expertise than I do. I think
that Carlos was wanting a share that did not require user
authentication. I have sometimes wanted to do this myself: allow the
world to access a share as read only, for example. Is there an easy way
(or even a hard way) to do this on a Win2k system that is mixed with
win9x machines? The "net use" works ok, but the user still needs to be
logged in on the win9x machine with a name that matches the share on the
win2k (win9x net command does not support the /u: option).

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
On 5 Jun 2002, at 23:36, Carlos Gonzalez wrote:

> I have a computer running Windows 2000, but everytime I try to see the

> Shared Folders of the computer with Windows 2000 the computer asks me
> for a password.  The probelm is I have not assigned any passwords for
> this computer so how do i know what the password is
> ?   Any suggestions will help.   Thank you

  If you are using a mix of 95/98/ME machines (or other clients
configured for share-level security) to access resource governed by
user-level security, you may have to use the command-line form of the
"NET USE" command to specify both a user account and password.  You can
put this in a .BAT file if you need to use it a lot, although storing
passwords in .BAT files is not generally a good idea....

Dave Gillett

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