I am currently using "//2000server/hcl" in my browsers, which goes to \\2000server\www\xampp\htdocs\hcl
This is wrong. You use a Windows share and not your webserver.
To access the webserver you must use:
http://server-ip/hcl
You can use your server ip as FQDN.
If you really have a windows 2k
server, you can activate the DNS service and use the server name:
http://server-name/hcl