Accessing XP from NT?

Question

What do you have to do to make it possible for an XP machine to accept an authentication to access shares from an NT machine?

When I click on the Computer Name in the Network Neighbourhood it gives me a Username and password box to log in but the login always fails.

Answer 1

Hello,

(ANS) There is actually a difference in the filing system versions between windows NT and XP (they are NTFS version 4.xx and XP uses NTFS version 5.0) I believe. However this isnt the actual cause of the problem your talking about.

When you click on the computer name (hostname) and it asks you for your username & password. I suspect the reason your login fails is because you have to have a username & password on the actual domain (an account on the server or a domain account held on the PDC primary domain controller) this is the main server that runs the network. As you dont appear to have one the login credentials fail to authenticate you and thus prevent access.

**This is too do with ACL's (access control lists) which are held on the host machine i.e. the computer you are trying to gain access too. As well as on the domain controller.

**Both machines should be fully capable of seing & sharing files i.e. XP & NT and vica versa. But it requires the network or system admins to have setup the required accounts on the domain controller & setup the shares correctly too. And setup the correct user rights, permissions & privilages.

Best Regards
IR

Answer 2

Both computers have to have user accounts with identical usernames and identical passowrd. The user accounts should also belong to the Local Administrators. You can create a user account by doing the following:

1. Click Start
2. Click Run
3. type cmd.exe
4. Press Enter
5. In the blackbox type the following commandlines:

net user [username] [password] /add
net localgroup adminstators [username] /add

6. Note: replace [username] and [password] with choices of your own. These should be identical on your XP and NT boxes.

7. Turn off the Windows Firewall on Windows XP

This should allow you to cross the systems seamlessly. Do the following to test.

8. Click Start
9. Clcik Run
10. type \\[computername]\c$

11: Note: [Computername] will be the NetBIOS name of the computer you are trying to connect to.