Re: Sharing permissions

From: serverguy (nospammers_at_spambites.com)
Date: 03/02/04 

Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 13:46:34 -0500

Yes, but on the laptop is it a local administrator account or a domain
account? Big Difference! Also, you need to specify workstation only when
you login to the laptop, or use the dropdown to select the workstation name
rather than the domain.

<aa> wrote in message news:OqKKw89$DHA.2216@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> I am getting
> "//computerName/folderName
> the specified network name is no longer available"
>
> or "Unexpected network error"
>
> When I am trying to access the printer properties: "printer is not
> accessable"
>
> To avoid possible complications with different logins, the two home
> computers have only Administrator login with the same pw as the
> Administrator login on the laptop. On the laptop I also use Administrator
> login when connecting to the home network. So all the three computers are
> logged in as Administrator with the same pw
>
>
> "Scott Harding - MS MVP" <scrockel@**NO_SPAM**hotmail.com> wrote in
message
> news:OFi8zT9$DHA.2600@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > well sort of.....it can depend on the workgroup name if your trying to
> > browse through the network. If your getting access denied try making an
> > account on the machine with the share that uses the same username and
> > password from your work laptop. Do you have any firewalls running that
may
> > be blocking the share? What kind of errors do you get?
> >
> > --
> > Scott Harding
> > MCSE, MCSA, A+, Network+
> > Microsoft MVP - Windows NT Server
> >
> > <aa> wrote in message news:un68KA9$DHA.2600@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > > Thanks, Scott,
> > > I am talking about home network of three w2k Pro so no domain server
is
> > > there.
> > > Two machines are on WG and the third - my office laptop - is
confidured
> > for
> > > Domain in the offfice
> > >
> > > For the moment accessing files between the three computers is
> inconsistent
> > > and I wanted to know if wrong Sharing Permissions might contribute
to
> > this
> > > problem. From your comments I conclude that Everyone removes all
> > > restrictions, and therefore the problem is elsewhere
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "Scott Harding - MS MVP" <scrockel@**NO_SPAM**hotmail.com> wrote in
> > message
> > > news:O4SPUj8$DHA.2448@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > > > Yes but that is certainly wide open. If you are in a Domain
> environment
> > > you
> > > > could use Authenticated Users and that will only allow members of
your
> > > > domain or people who actually authenticate. Also Everyone Full
Control
> > is
> > > > the default once you 'share' a folder......
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Scott Harding
> > > > MCSE, MCSA, A+, Network+
> > > > Microsoft MVP - Windows NT Server
> > > >
> > > > <aa> wrote in message
news:OIW%23X07$DHA.4012@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > > > > When sharing a folder, there is an option to set Sharing
> permissions.
> > > > > If I want no restrictions as to who might access this folder,
would
> > > > > "Everyone" do the job?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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