Connecting an XP Pro computer to Win2000 laptop
Trying to connect my laptop (Win2K) to my desktop (XP Pro) works from laptop to desktop but rearwards compatibility seems to have been overlooked if you are trying to connect an XP Pro computer to a Win2K machine. The XP Pro computer just will not recognise any lesser OS'd Win2K machines across our Windows network. The connection is via router hubs and a server running Mandrake, RedHat or Gentoo flavours of Linux.
I suspect that it was done intentionally by Msoft in order to discourage non or partial upgrade from Win2K platforms. XP Pro is supposedly OKAY visible from/to any other brand of Windoze - but requiring a specially made up floppy to innoculate any machine you wish to share with or connect to.
However someone out there might have some clues (or specific URLS). Cannot find reference to it in the usual places.