Re: Problem viewing folder and files over tcp/netbui

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"Steve N." <me@xxxxxxxx> writes:


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> Another thought... Have you tried taking ownership of the file shares by
> the account in question from the machine having the difficulty seeing them?

I don't understand you here..

What I have setup is a user Harry on each winxp box. Harry is an
administrator on all. Harry has full control of all shares on all.
Is that what you mean?

> I still honestly think it's an SP2 effect on browsing network shares wen
> spread accross across mutiple hosts.

If that is so, it seems odd there aren't more reports like mine. I do
find a few using google but pretty old for the most part and most
involve a specific update that caused something very very similar.
And has since been patched or superceeded.

In recent months there is very little posted about this kind of
problem. There are apparently many many sp2 users who do not have
this problem.
> I haven't narowed it down to any
> SP2 specifics (yet) but I tend to place the blame on SP2 changes, which
> are largely undocumented, because I have seen that rolling back to SP1
> and and/or completing a repair install of XP SP1 has solved the issues
> of being unable to browse/access multiple network shares when more that
> one machine hosting shares is involved. It would be interesting to see
> how a rollback to SP1 and/or a repair install of SP1 XP would effect
> your problem.

I can say with near certainty that above is very like to fix my
problem. And also very likely to be what I do next. Either that or a
full reinstall with native sp2 disk.

My problem machine was originally a pre sp2 MS media disk install.
And it did not have this problem.
.

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