Re: Sharing oddity



Dr Bob in Dallas wrote:
> hank you very much - here are the results
> At the Win2000::
> I can see the problem share
> net share yields : share name p32G_GRAPHICS ,
>  path G:\,   Remark (nil),  Max Users  10, User  (nil),
> ...all of which are correct
>
> At the WIn98::
> ping command works
>
> net use z: \\p32sys\p32G_GRAPHICS  responds "complete successfully"
>
> net use  responds: withe three lines
>
> Z:     \\p32sys\p32G_GRAPHICS
>         \\p32sys\IPC$
>         \\p32sys\p32G_GRAPHICS
>
> So, it would seem that my win98 system is seeing the problem drive on
> the peer win2000. G:\ is just not showing up when I look at Network
> Neighborhood  in the win98 explorer.
>
> What do you think?
>  Thanks again........Bob L
>



Pegasus (MVP) wrote: 
"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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