Home Network Problems [Resolved]

[MartinLiss]

I have a home network that uses hardware and software provided by 2Wire and I have a problem.

The main computer in my network has an NT4 OS. It is also a part of a network that I use to connect to my work. My PC name on that network is CRAFTREMOTE5 and it is part of the PLUS domain.
It has a hard drive partitioned into C (the system drive), D and E. I have drives D and E shared with my permissions set to Everyone Read.

The second computer has a Windows Me OS.

I have no problem accessing the files on the Win Me PC from the NT PC, but when I try to access the files on the NT PC from the Win Me PC it asks me for a password for \\CRAFTREMOTE5\IPC$ and I don't know what the IPC$ is all about. When I enter the NT PC's logon/network password (the only one it has), the Win Me Pc tells me that the password is not accepted.

Any ideas?

[Pc_Madness]

Not familiar with NT all that much, but I think u need a guest account... Theres something on Galahtech.com about it I do believe.

[Beacon]

IPC$ is the default share for your c drive. Usually it's c$ but you've named your c drive ipc??

It doesnt seem like the ME pc is on the domain properly.
Do you log onto both computers as the same user? And you log into the domain not the local pc.
Try adding the user account from the domain to the ME computer in COntrol Panel --> Users blah blah.

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[MartinLiss]

Originally posted by Pc_Madness
Not familiar with NT all that much, but I think u need a guest account... Theres something on Galahtech.com about it I do believe.

What's Galahtech?

[Pc_Madness]

Originally posted by MartinLiss
What's Galahtech?

I hope that was a joke...

http://www.galahtech.com/forums


Try Beacons answer first of course.

[MartinLiss]

Originally posted by Beacon
IPC$ is the default share for your c drive. Usually it's c$ but you've named your c drive ipc??

It doesnt seem like the ME pc is on the domain properly.
Do you log onto both computers as the same user? And you log into the domain not the local pc.
Try adding the user account from the domain to the ME computer in COntrol Panel --> Users blah blah.

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My NT system drive is c and it's default sdhare is c$. The IPC$ may come from the fact that I do IP networking with my work. I'm going to try creating a new share on the c drive. If that doesn't work I'm going to create a guest user on the NT machine and see if I can access it that way.

[MartinLiss]

The problem is fixed. All I did was (believe it or not) was to use Windows Explorer to map a network drive that pointed to \\craftremote5\e_home where e_home is the name of my share. When I tried to use 2Wire's software it always asked me for a password to \\craftremote5\ipc$ and I have just found out that ipc$ is a "named pipe", whatever that is. In any case I'm happy. Thanks to all that responded.

[Yonatan]

ipc$ isn't a drive... It's the share for the named pipes. See also CreateNamedPipe (Win32 function). IPC stands for Inter-Process Communcation, and named pipes are a way for two processes on the network, not necessarily on the same computer, to send data to each other.

Also, the ipc$ share is one that hackers often try to bind to, to see if a victim's NBT (NetBIOS over TCP/IP) is open to the Internet, and get his/her shares and usernames. This can be used to gain access to the victim's hard drive(s). So make sure you secure it.