home lan puzzler

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Setup: 3 winxp boxes
1 linux
1 winxp on laptop

All above are hooked up on home network the 3 desktop winxp boxes all
run windowsxp pro.

I'm seeing a sort of baffling problem that I'm not sure when nor how
it started.

The shares that are setup can be connected to from 2 and 3 just fine.
The baffling part is 2 and 3 when connected to 1 cannot see inside
certain folders. The folders can be access and files moved or removed
but the files cannot be seen.

I get no error messages to include here. Even setting up a mapped
drive on mach3 in explorer I see the main directory but nothing
inside.

If I type a share address into explorer like

\\mach1\mach1-share\folder\subfolder

Explorer opens them fine. But the files are invisible.

I've seen this phenomena mentioned on the windows xp newsgroups before
but don't recall seeing a resolution.

I'm coming from a unix backgroud and have grown accustomed to network
connections that are reliable and straight forward.

Somehow it seems on a windows home lan things get changed and
sometimes don't work properly for no apparent reason.

I imagine that is just that I don't know where to look.


I recently brought mach1 up to date on sp2. Haven't noticed any
particular problems but I believe the problem discussed here was
already going on before the update.
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