Re: network can not access external drive

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From: Steve Winograd [MVP] (winograd_at_pobox.com)
Date: 04/01/04


Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 01:14:19 -0700

In article <168e401c4178b$751eeaf0$a301280a@phx.gbl>, "John"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Hi everyone I just installed an external 160GB USB2.0
>hard drive on my main machine, and it works great on that
>machine...the problem is none of my other machines can
>access it, I have it shared and they can see it but I get
>an error that says the server does not have enough
>resources? all my other shared drives are shared the same
>way and I just can not figure this out...Is it due to
>USB ? or just some little something I am missing

The problem is probably that an antivirus program has changed an
obscure TCP/IP setting. Please see this Microsoft Knowledge Base
article for a likely solution, specifying a value of 15 for
IRPStackSize on the "server" computer:

Antivirus Software May Cause Event ID 2011
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;177078

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Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)
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