okay i got myself a new laptop a nice little toshiba portege 7020 running win 2000

Now the problem is i have a main computer running win ME which runs a sort of a server putting internet etc across a small network. When i try and access the laptops harddrive from the other computers in the network they ask for a password. I never put a password on the sharing of the drive so any ideas what do do to get access.

Thanks folk

This was just discussed in the ``This should be SOOO simple'' thread. You do have a username and password, it's just that you told it never to ask you for them again when you set up your computer. You probably just need to make sure that the user you're using on both computers has the same username.

Read it tryed putting in no password it didn't work, tryed password i used for laptop no joy

still scratching head

It's more than just a password. There's a username as well.

When you connect from a Win9x machine to another machine it uses the username you "logged" onto Win9x with and only gives the option of entering a password. WinNT/Win2k/WinXP will give the option of a username AND and password. If you are using Win2k in normal single user non-network mode the only user on the Win2k machine is probably the "Administrator" user.

Unless you are logged into your Win9x machine as "Administrator" it will fall apart.

2 options:

1) Add the current Win9x user to your Win2k machine (Control Panel->Users And Passwords on Win2k)
OR
2) Log in to the Win9x machine as an account that already exists on the Win2k machine (Control Panel->Users And Passwords on Win2k again for the list)

It's really only a username that exists that is important. The passwords can be different since you are given the option of entering a password when they don't match.

Just re-read and realised you said WinME. Where I said Win9x read it as Win9x/ME.

HTH