win98 vs. win2k problem

From: DM (noemail.please_at_replytogroup.net)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 08:22:40 -0400

I'm having what I think is a Win98 vs. Win2K problem. I have a share on
a Win2K Pro machine called WABCdata. Permissions set to "everyone". We
use an application that runs on the same machine to handle the database
(Advantage Database Server). I also run a little app on about 5 Win98
PC's that talks to the Advantage Server. Everthing was working fine
until I tried to set permissions on the share( user A,B, & C and admin
has full access and nobody else). Then the app choked and couldn't open
the data in the share. The software rep says the app encrypts the data
itself, so I don't need to set permissions ( which I'm not comfortable
with - but thats another discussion ). SO - I take the permissions off
again, and 3 of the 5 users are fine. When I try to access the share(
WITHOUT the software) users A and B get this message:

\\servername is not accessible.
The device does not exist on the network.

The problem is not exclusive to that machine, it is those two users. I
can log out and log back in as me and it works fine. I can also log in
as user A on a win2K machine ad access that share just fine.

So I get ALL of the updates for the win2k box and then a remove the
share, reboot, and re-create the share. The problem seems to have been
fixed - BUT - then the database client app does something buggy and
can't get access to the data, and now I'm getting the same error.

All of the client/server software problems aside, I can't access that
share. This sure seems like a win98 win2K problem, but I can't see whats
wrong. I've googled this all I can but I'm getting nowhere.

Thanks -

Drew M

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