XP x64 sharing over LAN with Windows 2000

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I'm working at a friends network with these two PC's on a LAN.
They are firewalled externally, so all win software firewalling is
disabled on both.
I'd like to know how to allow acces from and to both, by both
machines, on the LAN.
One is running Windows 2000 (all up to date), the other Windows XP Pro
x64 Edition.

I have them both using the same name workgroup, but they can't access
each other.
Can someone tell me how on earth I can make these two stand-alone
workstations see each other?
Both have only one user, and they log on automatically. No crap with
Groups or anything.

And yes, I know about all security risks involved. There just seems no
way I can make
either of them allow access. And those silly wizzards make me want to
cry, they're so useless!

I'm using TotalCommander, and like to have the least possible
protocols enabled in this Network.
I've never in my life had TotalCommander freeze on me, except for when
I try to access the other PC
on this LAN. It just seems to loop in some endless zero-divide just
because it's looking
for the other machine or something.

I'm tempted to go and run SlimFTPd on both, because hell, I have that
working before this dreadful
networking system of MS will ever work, so it seems. And ALL I need to
do is exchange some files.

So yeah, if there's no way to easily fix this, and nobody replies
here, slimftpd is what it will be.
It's ridiculous to have to spend so much time on such trivial task!
MicroSoft, for this YOU SUCK!
 
Re: XP x64 sharing over LAN with Windows 2000

jult wrote:
> I'm working at a friends network with these two PC's on a LAN.
> They are firewalled externally, so all win software firewalling is
> disabled on both.
> I'd like to know how to allow acces from and to both, by both
> machines, on the LAN.
> One is running Windows 2000 (all up to date), the other Windows XP Pro
> x64 Edition.
>
> I have them both using the same name workgroup, but they can't access
> each other.
> Can someone tell me how on earth I can make these two stand-alone
> workstations see each other?
> Both have only one user, and they log on automatically. No crap with
> Groups or anything.
>
> And yes, I know about all security risks involved. There just seems no
> way I can make
> either of them allow access. And those silly wizzards make me want to
> cry, they're so useless!
>
> I'm using TotalCommander, and like to have the least possible
> protocols enabled in this Network.
> I've never in my life had TotalCommander freeze on me, except for when
> I try to access the other PC
> on this LAN. It just seems to loop in some endless zero-divide just
> because it's looking
> for the other machine or something.
>
> I'm tempted to go and run SlimFTPd on both, because hell, I have that
> working before this dreadful
> networking system of MS will ever work, so it seems. And ALL I need to
> do is exchange some files.
>
> So yeah, if there's no way to easily fix this, and nobody replies
> here, slimftpd is what it will be.
> It's ridiculous to have to spend so much time on such trivial task!
> MicroSoft, for this YOU SUCK!

The two machines need to be on the same workgroup, have NetBIOS over
TCP/IP enabled, and unless you want to be entering explicit credentials,
you'll need the usernames and passwords to be identical on both
machines. You can't use a blank password unless you fiddle with the
policy settings.

That's it. After that you should be able to see the other machine in the
workgroup. If you want to transfer files between them you'll need to
create shares or connect to the default hidden shares (C$ etc) for the
disks.

--
Chris M.

Remove pants to email me.
 
Re: XP x64 sharing over LAN with Windows 2000

Hi,
therte is much stuff to talk about networking.
try to google a "networking for beginners"

fist you should think about the connection (wire or else)
to a router ?
does that deliver ip adresses (DHCP server enabled / DHCP client on your
machine too ?), or do you adjust yourself on your networkcard

are both machines in same ip range / subnet

do you have NetBios over IP enabled,
file and printersharing / client for MS networks installed / aktivated

do your shares have simple sharing enabled / or are files on ntfs drive with
sharing and acces protection

do your pc's have accounts, that are allowd to access ?

that is not any fault of MS, this in ip - networking by standards

jk
 
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