Here's the scoop; I bought a new Vista Home Premium machine (had to for s/w
reasons) a few months ago, to join my W2000 network (3 machines).

All wired, static ip's, dirt simple (router/firewall to internet off
etherswitch). Vista Firewall is turned OFF (Cisco h/w works just fine
instead)

Had some problems originally getting it to log into shares (HD/Printers),
but got everything to work fine up until today. Now I can't get a good
login to the machine with the printers on it. Account is fine. Lan is
fine. Other machines (W2000) can print fine. Vista logs into other W2000
machines just fine. Just not the one I really need to!

I've got the idea that all these 'fixes' microsoft puts out (2-10 a DAY)
caused the problem, but can't really know. Added a new 'user' on the W2000
machine and tried to log into that from the Vista... no go.

And it was working so well.... I'm out of ideas. Goggle is no help... But
I'm a usenet addict, so here I am.

Kept beating on this, and it turned out that the 'compatibility bit' in the
registry (the 'LMCompatibility' bit) had been set by one of the intermitable
M$ 'fixes' to a level other than zero.

Put it back (to zero), and things took off. Geez, these folks need to watch
what they're doing. Right.