Re: Pocket PC 2002/2003 will not connect to SBS 2003 network share

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From: Helio Diamant - MS/MVP, Mobile Devices (helio_at_nospam.pocketpcfreak.com)
Date: 05/28/04 

Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 21:53:24 +0200

I suggest you try to open My Computer|Tools|Folder Options|View, and check
if at the list of options there the last option (or one of them) is "Use
Simple File Sharing".

In case it is, UNCHECK THIS OPTION, since it creates a situation that the
Pocket PC is not asked for user identification for the connection, and has
the connection immediately denied. At the moment this option is unchecked,
you get the user/password window and everything begins to work. 

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Helio Diamant - MS/MVP Mobile Devices
http://www.pocketpcfreak.com
"Jeff" <jeff4321@nospam.comcast.net> wrote in message
news:LrqdnR1x7qEjoivd4p2dnA@comcast.com...
> Hello,
>
> I posted this over in the microsoft.public.pocketpc newsgroup earlier, but
> there seems to be more info/activity here regarding networking the Pocket
> PC. (Apologies for those that may have already seen this in the other
> newsgroup.)
>
> I have searched all over and have seen others with a somewhat similar
> problem but I have not seen a solution to my own particular one. So any
help
> would be appreciated, it is driving me nuts!
>
> I have a network with SBS 2003 as the server with XP clients. I have been
> trying to get the Pocket PCs (2002 & 2003) to be able to connect to the
> network shares on the SBS server but cannot get them to see or connect to
> them. All of the XP clients can connect to any of the server's shares
> without any issues. One thing I can do with the Pocket PCs is connect to
the
> SBS server (i.e. \\servername) but any shares on the server do not show up
> on the Pocket PCs nor can I connect to them directly (i.e.
> \\servername\share1). If I do try to connect to a share on the server
> directly, it just repeatedly asks me to authenticate with the
> login/passwd/domain screen on the Pocket PCs, and then connecting to
> \\servername also fails too afterwards, with the same repetition of trying
> to authenticate. I then need to do a soft reset of the Pocket PCs to get
> back to at least getting access to \\servername.
>
> Troubleshooting so far:
> 1) I verified NetBIOS is running (over IP)
> 2) I can ping the server by IP and name (as well as any clients)
> 3) I have been able to get the Pocket PCs to connect to any of the XP
> client's network shares without a problem.
> 4) I have changed permissions for a share on the server to open it up to
the
> "world" and still cannot connect nor "see" it.
> 5) I verified in the server security audit that I am indeed logging into
the
> server when connecting to \\servername
> 6) WINS is running on the server and is working
> 7) I have tried domain/user as the login name, no difference
> 8) I have tried logging in from the Pocket PC with a domain admin account,
> still did not work.
>
> So, anyone know how to make this work? This worked before with a Win 2K
> domain server before the SBS 2003 server took its place. I'm stumped!
>
> Thanks!
>
>

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