In short; I set up a shared folder on a W2K machine, and it is visible
to me from a W95 machine but not from a W2K machine.
We have a NT4 domain server, and we all log on into the domain.I set
up a shared top-level folder on a W2K PC (*not* Server), and made it
accessible to Everyone, both the Sharing and Permissions. The C drive
has the default share set up.
When I try
and access this folder from another W2K PC I get the message
"Incorrect password or unknown user name". However, when I use of W95
PC and I'm logged into the domain with exactly the same username, I
get into the shared folder no problem. I can also see the share from
the NT4 Server (logged in as the same user). Why the problem with the
W2K client?

You can try setting up a local account on the W2K machine (with the
share in question), then try using those login details to access the
share from another W2K machine. I'm not sure if it will work but it is
worth a try.

It does work (for which my thanks) but it still doesn't deal with the
fundamental problem of why it doesn't work normally. It also adds
extra steps (which I suppose I can get round) as I want to access the
folder without having an extra login (which it does ask for) and
there's problems when I change my password on the domain server; the
local one won't change.

Have you verified that you indeed have the "Everyone" group from the
DOMAIN added with full share rights and not the Everyone group from
the local W2K PC? This would definitely cause the exact error you are
reporting. If you setup the share logged into the local PC and not the
domain, it would probably add Everyone for the local PC as default,
thus denying domain accounts. Of course this doesn't explain why your
95/NT machines would be able to access it, but it's something I would
check. I would probably also explicitly add the user in question to
both the share and security permissions for this folder/share from the
DOMAIN just to see if it makes a difference.

PWizard
Google Answers Researcher

Tried both of those suggestions. . . no luck, I'm afraid.

A couple more things:

1) Have you tried mapping a drive to the share in question and
accessing it that way? Do you get the same error or does it tell you
"Access Denied" ?

2) Does the user trying to access the share happen to have a local
account on the W2K PC that is hosting the share? (perhaps with the
same username) If so, can you delete the local account and then try
again?

Thanks,
PWizard
Google Answers Researcher

1. Only by setting up a local user on the shared PC, which I'm trying to avoid.

2. No. (I put in one when it wasn't working, as suggested before, but I took it out)

Does the W2K PC with the shares have a valid COMPUTER account in the
NT4 domain? (under Network Identification it shows to be a member of a
DOMAIN and not a WORKGROUP)

-PWizard

Yes they do.