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I have just upgraded two machines at a radio station with XP Professional and all of their other workstations use 2000 Professional. &nbsp;They are also using a static IP system for communication between the systems and none of them are configured for Internet access. &nbsp;My problem is that the two XP units see each other and can share files with no problem but the 2000 Pro machines are requiring a username/password combination from the XP machines before allowing access. &nbsp;Every system is visible to all other systems across the network and they all reside in the same workgroup; the only issue is getting the 2000 units to allow access since they need to have paths created for the station's software to work. &nbsp;Any help would be greatly appreciated. &nbsp;I'm sure I'm just missing a setting somewhere, but I can't see it.
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I have just upgraded two machines at a radio station with XP Professional and all of their other workstations use 2000 Professional.  They are also using a static IP system for communication between the systems and none of them are configured for Internet access.  My problem is that the two XP units see each other and can share files with no problem but the 2000 Pro machines are requiring a username/password combination from the XP machines before allowing access.  Every system is visible to all other systems across the network and they all reside in the same workgroup; the only issue is getting the 2000 units to allow access since they need to have paths created for the station's software to work.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I'm sure I'm just missing a setting somewhere, but I can't see it.

Communicating between Win 2000 Pro and Win XP Pro machines across a TCP/IP network

I have just upgraded two machines at a radio station with XP Professional and all of their other workstations use 2000 Professional.  They are also using a static IP system for communication between the systems and none of them are configured for Internet access.  My problem is that the two XP units see each other and can share files with no problem but the 2000 Pro machines are requiring a username/password combination from the XP machines before allowing access.  Every system is visible to all other systems across the network and they all reside in the same workgroup; the only issue is getting the 2000 units to allow access since they need to have paths created for the station&amp;#39;s software to work.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I&amp;#39;m sure I&amp;#39;m just missing a setting somewhere, but I can&amp;#39;t see it.

The Internet Protocol (IP) is the principal communications protocol in the Internet protocol suite for relaying datagrams across network boundaries, organized in abstraction layers, traditionally called "Link," "Internet," "Transport" and "Application”. Its routing function enables internetworking, and essentially establishes the Internet. IP defines packet structures that encapsulate the data to be delivered. It also defines addressing methods that are used to label the datagram with source and destination information.

Internet Protocols

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is the set of networking protocols that define end-to-end connectivity specifying how data should be packeted, addressed, transmitted, routed and received at the destination. This functionality is organized into four abstraction layers which are used to sort all related protocols according to the scope of networking involved.

TCP/IP

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical, globally distributed system responsible for associating the name of a computer, service or other resource into an IP address for connecting to the Internet or a private network. Most prominently, it translates domain names to the numerical IP addresses needed for the purpose of computer services and devices worldwide.