Re: Sharing oddity


"Dr Bob in Dallas" <robtlebo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4268325B.7000907@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I know...not another question on sharing over a peer-to-peer LAN. But
> this one stumps we.
> But I have a win98SE system talking to a win2000 system over a local
> LAN. Mostly it works fine. I can set up and share folders
> (logical drives) on the win2000 system, except for one. Sharing of a
> specific logical drive (G:) appears to be set up as it should be and as
> are all the other logicals, but it won't show up on the LAN. The system
> and the other loigcal show up but no that one drive. On the other hand
> it does show up locally, when at the win2000 end but the other win98se
> computer just cannot seem to see it.
>
> The win98SE computer can talk to the other three drives that
> are set up for sharing. But not to that one blasted logical.
> I tried setting up sharing via Sharing under Properties, via Sharing
> directly, and even via Administrator Tools. Tried removing sharing via
> Administrator and then resharing. Rebooted time and time again. No luck.
>
> Any suggestions on the way out of this puzzle?
>
> Thanks.. Bob
>

Time to get down to command line commands so that you
can see what's going on, and quote appropriate error messages.

>From your description I assume that you have created a
share on your Win2000 PC, and that this share is invisible
to the Win98 PC. Please try this:

- On the Win2000 PC:
* Start a Command Prompt
* Type this: net share
Can you see the problem share?
* Type this: net share \\%ComputerName%\xxx
(where "xxx" is the name of the problem share).
Does the command work?

- On the Win98 PC:
* Start an MS DOS Prompt
* Type this: ping yyy
(where "yyy" is the NetBIOS name of the Win2000 PC)
Does the command work?
* Type this: net use z: \\yyy\xxx
What do you see?


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