Setting up a PC on 2000 server

[LawyerRon]

I’m helping a friend set up a pc to print product labels at his business. His IT guy is on vacation. The pc needs to access their “m” drive on the server to get the data for the labels. Right now, the pc can see the “m” drive in “My Computer” but does not have permission to access it. The pc runs 98SE. The server runs Server 2000. I need to know what to do on the server so the pc can have access to the “m” drive.

[lil Jimmie]

Ron, you will need to Log on to the Server with admin rights then add/give the users/groups from the 98 box at least “read” permission to access the M drive. To do this use explorer and locate the M drive, right click then properties. In the properties box, click on the sharing tab if it is not already shared, then share the drives/folders. Then go into the permissions tab click on add and add the appropriate users/groups to the list or select the users/groups and set the needed permissions to access the drive in this case I believe read would be all that you would need.

[LawyerRon]

Thanks L.J.,
I'll check it out in the morning!

[Tuf]

Read Access is all you need unless you want to be able to change the data from the PC that will be running the printer.

[mosquito]

if the win98 machine is not in the same domain as the win2k box you can type the following at the command line:

net use \\<win2kmachine> "<password>" /user:<win2kmachine>\<username>

Replace <win2kmachine> with the name of the windows 2000 machine, replace <username> with the username of a user on that machine (like administrator, although I would recommend another user for security reasons.). Replace <password> with the password for the user you specified.

Maybe it's not what you need, but I use this all the time to gain quick access to a machine on our network.

[LawyerRon]

Thanks for the help all, I'll give it a try.