Topic: can not browse or map drive to e-smith-server

[Prab Gill]

I can not browse e-smith-server resoucesor map a network drive from one Windows 98 PC though I can browse and map from my second Windows 98 pc. When I try to browse E-smith-server from my first pc I get the following message:

  You must supply a password to make this connection:
  Resource:     \E-SMITH-SERVER\IPC$

I have created user account on E-smith similar to computer name but still does not work. I will appreciate your help.

[Tim Litwiller]

Your win98 computer name doesn't matter to the e-smith server what matters is that the username that is logged into the win98 machine is allowed to use the e-smith server.

[alejandro]

In other words, log as admin or root (create users in windows if necesary) and you will be able to browse the e-smith server but not the hole thing,
if you want to browse the hole tree you should use telnet from any pc in the network and connect to the server (ussualy 192.168.1.1) and you will be asked for a login (enter root as login name and the admin/root password, then you can use any tree navigation package ej Midnight comander to browse all the files in server.
alejandro

[Luke Drumm]

On the off chance that while Alejandro's post may of been correct, it may have been a little off the mark on what Prab was actually after:

On the assumption that you're not being presented with a network logon at the start of Win 95+ session:

It's sounds like your Networking options are not installed/set up correctly on your Win 95+ box. My suggestion is to go to the networking section under the control panel, remove the existing network card drivers and reinstall them. While this might sound drastic, it's usually the easiest way to make sure Windows has the 'full set' of required drivers and settings.

Windows will probably require your Windows CD and/or your network driver disk. (These may be one and the same depending on your setup).

The other alternative is that you *are* being presented with a logon window at the start of each Windows session:

This is a little more tricky as there's quite a few scenarios that'll give you the aforementioned problem. Things to check:
 - You're actually logining into the network and not just entering a Windows password.
 - You're logging in using a username and password that 'known' to e-smith.
 - The e-smith box is visable in the Network Neighbourhood window.
 - There's the full set of at least one protocol, adapter and service in your network control panel.

Hopefully that covers most of it.

Luke