I have set up a shared folder on a windows 2000 PC, I have
several technicians going from user to user to make
repairs on their PC's. Most of these users are using
win95/98. The technicians need to access this folder form
the users PC to gain access to fixes and applications
stored on this share. sometimes they are asked to supply a
password (it does not ask for a "user id") or get access
is denied. The guest account does not have a password
assigned to it. if they log the user off the PC and than
log on as themself (which takes a long time) they can
access the share fine. What I would like is when the try
to access the share from the users PC it prompts them for
a user id and password than they can supply there user id
and password (which they all have permisions to this share)
and get access to this share. the only other way I found
was to give "everyone" access to this folder But I dont
want everyone having access to this folder. is there a way
to do this?

Thanks

I am not real familiar with W98 in a domain these days but one solution may be to use
the net use command at the command line to create a temporary mapped drive such as "
net use z \\servername\sharename password /u:username /persistent:no ". That will map
drive z to the computer share for that session. Net help use will give more info on
that command. --- Steve


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> I have set up a shared folder on a windows 2000 PC, I have
> several technicians going from user to user to make
> repairs on their PC's. Most of these users are using
> win95/98. The technicians need to access this folder form
> the users PC to gain access to fixes and applications
> stored on this share. sometimes they are asked to supply a
> password (it does not ask for a "user id") or get access
> is denied. The guest account does not have a password
> assigned to it. if they log the user off the PC and than
> log on as themself (which takes a long time) they can
> access the share fine. What I would like is when the try
> to access the share from the users PC it prompts them for
> a user id and password than they can supply there user id
> and password (which they all have permisions to this share)
> and get access to this share. the only other way I found
> was to give "everyone" access to this folder But I dont
> want everyone having access to this folder. is there a way
> to do this?
>
> Thanks

Thanks Steve for your reply... Yea but it's asking for a
password, there is no password on the guest account and it
won't accept the local administrator password. What
password is it lookinf for?
>-----Original Message-----
>I am not real familiar with W98 in a domain these days
but one solution may be to use
>the net use command at the command line to create a
temporary mapped drive such as "
>net use z \\servername\sharename
password /u:username /persistent:no ". That will map
>drive z to the computer share for that session. Net help
use will give more info on
>that command. --- Steve
>
>
> wrote in message
>news:ec6301c43d02$010ee9c0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> I have set up a shared folder on a windows 2000 PC, I
have
>> several technicians going from user to user to make
>> repairs on their PC's. Most of these users are using
>> win95/98. The technicians need to access this folder
form
>> the users PC to gain access to fixes and applications
>> stored on this share. sometimes they are asked to
supply a
>> password (it does not ask for a "user id") or get access
>> is denied. The guest account does not have a password
>> assigned to it. if they log the user off the PC and than
>> log on as themself (which takes a long time) they can
>> access the share fine. What I would like is when the try
>> to access the share from the users PC it prompts them
for
>> a user id and password than they can supply there user
id
>> and password (which they all have permisions to this
share)
>> and get access to this share. the only other way I found
>> was to give "everyone" access to this folder But I dont
>> want everyone having access to this folder. is there a
way
>> to do this?
>>
>> Thanks
>
>
>.
>

Are you talking about the IPC$ password? If so see the link below. If that
is happening it is looking for a user account that matches, including
password, the account the user is logged onto the W98 machine. That will go
away when guest account is enabled, but that is poor security as you
mentioned. They will either need to be logged on with their credentials or
try using the net use command as I suggested. I don't think you can get W98
to pop up a credentials box like NT operating systems. --- Steve

http://www.homenethelp.com/web/howto/win2k-ipc-error.asp

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> Thanks Steve for your reply... Yea but it's asking for a
> password, there is no password on the guest account and it
> won't accept the local administrator password. What
> password is it lookinf for?
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I am not real familiar with W98 in a domain these days
> but one solution may be to use
> >the net use command at the command line to create a
> temporary mapped drive such as "
> >net use z \\servername\sharename
> password /u:username /persistent:no ". That will map
> >drive z to the computer share for that session. Net help
> use will give more info on
> >that command. --- Steve
> >
> >
> > wrote in message
> >news:ec6301c43d02$010ee9c0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> >> I have set up a shared folder on a windows 2000 PC, I
> have
> >> several technicians going from user to user to make
> >> repairs on their PC's. Most of these users are using
> >> win95/98. The technicians need to access this folder
> form
> >> the users PC to gain access to fixes and applications
> >> stored on this share. sometimes they are asked to
> supply a
> >> password (it does not ask for a "user id") or get access
> >> is denied. The guest account does not have a password
> >> assigned to it. if they log the user off the PC and than
> >> log on as themself (which takes a long time) they can
> >> access the share fine. What I would like is when the try
> >> to access the share from the users PC it prompts them
> for
> >> a user id and password than they can supply there user
> id
> >> and password (which they all have permisions to this
> share)
> >> and get access to this share. the only other way I found
> >> was to give "everyone" access to this folder But I dont
> >> want everyone having access to this folder. is there a
> way
> >> to do this?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >
> >
> >.
> >