Sharing between Windows XP Home and Win2K

[psimon]

I am looking for some help on a problem I experience on my home network.

I have a few pc's at home running Windows XP Home and Win98se. I have had no problems sharing between these machines.

Recently my work Laptop has been upgraded to Win2K. I find that I can no longer share this machine with the rest of my home network. :(

If I try and map to a drive from my Win2K machine to the XP home machine I recieve the following message

"The mapped network drive could not be created because the following error has occurred:

There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request."

I believe this has something to do with the 'trusted domain' and WINS that has been setup on my Win2K machine.

Is there anything that I can do to get around this?

Will I need admin privileges on my Win2k machine?

Incidentally if I try and connect from the XP machine to the Win2K machine I am asked for a username and password. If I enter the username and password I would normally use I fail to connect to the Win2k machine.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Greenstead]

I have heard a similar problem before (and I didn't know the answer then either). Maybe this time.

If its a work laptop then it will be part of your company domain. It does not have WINS on it, but it will be set to look for a WINS server (which lives on your company network).

I don't know why you could not map to the XP PC.
On the WIN2K goto command prompt and do
IPCONFIG /ALL >FILE.TXT and copy and paste the file contents here. I may see something there.

For access from other PCs to the WIN2K shared folders you will need to enter an ID and password that exists on the WIN2K PC. However the ID must be entered as DOMAIN\USERID.
If that doesn't work it may be you need to have an account on the XP PC with the same ID and password as on the WIN2K PC.

Try that.