RE: win98 vs. win2k problem
From: BDedman (BDedman_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/27/04
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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:19:18 -0700
Well, primarily, Windows 98 is not compatible with Windows 2000 NTFS permissons. removing the permissions you set allowed the users to have access, so it fixed it. however, you state that the app did something buggy and it started giving you the error again. I'd say that you should contact the vendor about compatibility.
The best thing to do is to upgrade the windows 98 clients to 2000 clients, that's the ideal solution here, however not always an option.
Try searching Microsoft Technet using some key-words, instead of using google. most often times you'll find best solutions there.
Hope you are able to figure it out,
BDedman
MCSA
"DM" wrote:
> 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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