Win Server 2k and Win 7 client

Posted by Ray Kruse on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Ray Kruse
Published on 2010-05-29T08:27:39Z Indexed on 2010/05/29 8:34 UTC
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I have a Win Server 2000 system with AD configured. The network consists of an OKI printer, a network server, a wifi router a Win 2k client and the server. I'm trying to connect a Win 7 client. The purpose of the network, besides sharing equipment is to move files from client to client and scatter backups over more than 1 machine.

The Win 7 client is configured for DHCP and does in fact receive it's IP and DNS configuration from the server and it sees the printer, wifi router and network drive, but does not see the Win 2k client nor the Win 2k server.

I have tried the LAN Management Authentication Level set to 'Send LM & NTLM responses' with the 128 bit encryption removed. I've also done the registry hack on the key 'LmCompatibilityLevel'.

Neither of these have helped.

I have two questions:

  1. Is there a fix or is Win 2k totally incompatible?

  2. Is the best (or quickest/cheapest) fix to upgrade the server to Win 2k3 and not worry about the Win 2k client?

Thanks for any help.

Ray Kruse Buffalo, KY

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