Windows 98 -> 2000 password prompt
 

I run win 2000 and my wife runs win 98. Our computers are connected via a router (Ethernet). I can easily access her hard drives, and have them mapped as network drives. Ditto for her printer. However, when I try to set it up the other way, mapping my w2k drives into her w98 computer, it asks me for a password. No user ID, just a password. I've heard this is a common problem when trying to get win 98 to talk to anything more modern, but does anyone know if there is a way round it, or what said "password" actually is? I've tried the password that my user account has, I've tried everything I can think of, but nothing seems to work.

Any ideas?

Have you tried creating a user account on the Win2k machine with the user name and password from the 98 box? It's been a while since I had mixed that combination, but if I remember correctly, that helped me. If it doesn't work, there are much brighter minds than mine here.

digby is correct. Her user on the 98 machine must exist on the 2k machine.

Cheers guys, that was solved a lot easier and quicker than I expected!

I've got it working fine now. I should have guessed that, really.... ;-)