Peculiar permissions problem
- From: Nightowl <owl@[127.0.0.1]>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:37:03 +0000
Hello all
I'm very much a beginner at networking, trying to help a friend. He has 5 computers running XP SP2 in a workgroup, with simple file sharing disabled. Machines 1 and 2 are the main ones used and these both have shared folders. All the machines have the same user account, "Joe".
Everything worked well except that computer 1 could see but not access the shared folders on computer 2 -- "Access denied; you may not have permission" messages, according to my friend. It has been like this for a couple of years.
I suggested, just as an experiment, giving Joe full control of the share on machine 2 and suddenly machine 1 could access it! But why was it necessary for computer 1, when all the others were accessing 2 happily through the same Joe account? Any ideas?
He'd rather not leave it set like that and I'd love to understand the underlying cause. Is it possible that some permission setting in the local Joe account on computer 1 is affecting it? I thought only the Joe account on the host (machine 2) mattered, but I am only a beginner. . . Any comments very welcome.
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Nightowl
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