Re: Setting up xp and w2k network

From: Chuck (none_at_example.net)
Date: 02/11/05 

Date: 10 Feb 2005 19:58:04 -0600

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:02:19 -0600, "Colonel Blip"
<colonel.blip@removethespambigfoot.com> wrote:

>Thanks to all for the suggestions. I got my dual boot machine talking to my
>wife's w2k machine. I wish I could say I know exactly how I did it, but I
>did. I think I pinged it to death. <g>
>
>Having such success caused me to want to add to my aggravation, so today her
>new Dell arrived with XP Home on it. Back to the drawing board. After
>several back and forths and convincing the Dell installed McAfee firewall
>that my dual boot machine was ok, I can connect to it.
>
>I have now discovered another problem. When I set up the sharing for a drive
>on her w2k machine I could use, e.g. D$ and that would take care of the
>share for all sub-folders on D drive. I can not do that as of now. It will
>only allow access to view the root and none of the sub-folders can be
>opened. Something is different - any advice?

Colonel,

With XP Home and Simple File Sharing, you can only have Guest network access.
The D$ share, aka D-Drive administrative share, is accessible only to
administrators. 

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Chuck 
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