Re: Problems sharing a folder on a domain

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Quibble... Workgroup, not Domain. Different scenarios, different possible
answers.

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"Alain Dekker" <abdekker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I've been trying to find the answer to this on the web, but without
success.
I have two computers on a network. Both are running Windows XP, SP2.

I have the "Shared Folder" on each computer which I can see under "My
Network Places/Entire Network/Microsoft Windows
Network/Workgroup/WORKGROUP_NAME/COMP_NAME". I'll call the computers A and
B.

From computer A, I can navigate to B\Shared Folder without a program, copy
files, delete files, you name it.

From computer B, I can see the folder A\Shared Folder, but when I try and
open it, I get the message:

<FOLDER> is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this
network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if
you have access permissions.

Access is denied.

I can ping the computer A from B by IP address and computer name.

Now I have checked the permissions of the share on each and they both look
identical, except that the dialog looks different on each (tried to
attach, but says doc too large). Description of differences:
Comp A: 3 tabs, General, Sharing, Security. Sharing tab has radio buttons
"Do not share/Share this folder" with Permissions, Caching and New Share
buttons.
Comp B: 2 tabs, General, Sharing. Sharing tab has two group boxes called
"Local sharing and security" and "Network sharing and security". Latter
has two tick boxes "Share this folder on the network" (ticked) and "Allow
network users to change my files" (also ticked).

Note: the shared folder works on comp B (as in I can play with it from
comp A). Why are they different? The permissions have been set up, as far
as I can see, correctly.

I then checked my Windows Firewall settings on each computer and they both
look like they allow Fil and Printer Sharing. Finally, I checked the
Shared
Folders under Computer Management and again it looks the same across both
computers.

Questions:
1) Why do the folder properties look so different on the two PCs running
the
same version of Windows?
2) Why is it working on one PC and not the other?

Thanks,
Alain





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