Win95/98 Connecting to Windows2000

The connection from Windows95/98 to Windows 2000 using TCP/IP is
very similar to the connection from Windows95/98 to NT4:

	The Windows95/98 Dialup-Connection is configured for TCP/IP (to obtain the IP-address automatically) We define the Username and password, which is permitted to use the connection (defined using definition or configuration of the connection)


	Once the connection is established, we would like to use the Network Neighborhood. (It may take a some time for the systems to be displayed)
	But if the Server is NOT displayed:
	Make sure, that the system dialing in has defined the SAME workgroup name as the Windows2000 system.
	If the systems still are not displayed (it may be too much work to change each time the workgroup-name, which requires on Windows95/98 a restart), we use the Workaround: "Find" / "Computer", enter the name of the called system. once it is located, we double-click on it to display the shared resources. If you get "Enter Network Password" for the resource IPC$: then you did NOT login properly to your Windows95/98 system: The username and password defined to make the connection is only used to validate the connection !
	To validate the access to shared resources (disks, files, printers), it is the username and password defined at starting/booting your system !
	With the proper username and password at BOTH startup/ booting and making the connection, you can access the data, if it has been shared for you.

What about connection to the other systems on the network, as they as listed on the
called system in "My Network Places" / "Computers Near Me" ?

if the "Incoming Connection" on the called system is configured to
"Allow callers to access the network", we need WINS to be installed somewhere
on the network and the clients to be configured for WINS to get all systems displayed
in the Network Neighborhood.

Without WINS, also "Find" / "Computer" will NOT locate other systems on the network.
(a "Find Computer" sends out a broadcast message, however the called system is acting as a router
between the network segments "modem-modem" and LAN, and routers do NOT forward broadcast
messages).

Workaround:

	You need to know the Computer name and IP-address of the system, to which you like to connect. Make first the TCP/IP PING test to verify, that you have a connection to the system
	Then, define the IP-address and Computer name in LMHOSTS (add it at the end of the file, LMHOSTS on Win95/98 is located in the WINDOWS-directory, you may have to rename LMHOSTS.SAM to LMHOSTS) To have this new entry take effect, reboot or run the command: nbtstat -R
	"Find" / "Computer" knows now the IP-address and is able to locate the system on the network, allowing you to access the shared resources.