Re: XP file sharing problem

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From: Nate (someone_at_somewhere.com)
Date: 03/25/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 18:27:46 -0600

I have both the Internet Connection Firewall OFF and the Zone Alarm
turned off as well. Zone Alarm starts when I boot the computer so I
always shut that down manually and can see that it's not running when I
look in the Task Manager.

Chuck wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:35:59 -0600, Nate <someone@somewhere.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I'm having a strange problem accessing my XP Pro computer on the
>>network. There's 2 computers with XP Pro on them. I'm using a wireless
>>router and connect the 2 together with an Ethernet cable. Both can
>>access the Internet just fine, however, on the one that I've added to
>>it, can't access any of the files on there from the other one. They both
>>are using the same workgroup name and it has a drive shared on there,
>>but when trying to access it, it says it 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.
>>Unable to impersonate using a named pipe until data has been read from
>>that pipe."
>>Both of the computers have all the same user accounts, all of which are
>>set up as admin. I've tried connecting using different usernames with
>>their respective password, but nothing has worked. Simple file sharing
>>is enabled on both and all software firewalls (including the built-in
>>one) are turned off.
>>BTW, when I go to View Workgroup Computers, it'll be listed there, but
>>if I try to right-click and select Properties on it, it'll say the
>>server computername does not accept remote requests.
>>Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Thanks!
>
>
> Nate,
>
> What software firewalls are turned off? Some firewalls are known for
> misbehaving, do not respond properly to being turned off, and cause problems
> with file sharing.
>
> Here's an interesting article from M$:
> <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;318030&Product=winxp>
>
> Check the status of RPC service on both computers. Control Panel -
> Administrative Tools - Services.
>
> Cheers,
> Chuck
> Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

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