Re: Peculiar permissions problem

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Chuck <none@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Wed, 14 Mar 2007:

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:50:32 +0000, Nightowl <owl@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:

When I struck lucky with suggesting giving Joe full control, he was more than ever convinced that Windows networking is a black art :-)

Well, I appreciate the feedback about my website, but if you truly read and
believed what I said there, you will understand that Windows Networking is not
at all a black art. It is coldly logical.

I agree absolutely -- that's why I'm so interested in trying to find the answer. Sorry if I gave the wrong impression. What I meant was, my friend is rather a Windows-hater and has no patience to troubleshoot when things go wrong; his attitude is just "That's $%&* Windows for you!" I'm looking forward to digging around when I can next get down there and I *know* there has to be a reason for this.

If you have 2 computers running XP Pro, with disk drives formatted with NTFS,
network access from one to the other absolutely requires either Guest, or a
non-Guest, account properly activated for network access.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html

Right.

Either:
1) The disk partition is formatted with FAT.
2) The Guest account is activated for network access.
3) A non-Guest account is activated for network access, with matching (or blank)
passwords.

So you can say what you will - it's your (your friend's) computer after all. But if you want to solve the mystery / fix the problem, go with an open mind and you will find the answer.

Thanks, Chuck. I'm sorry, I'm a bit confused about your 3 points above; are these possible causes of the problem? Would they be on computer 1 (the only one that couldn't access the share?) Because if they're on 2 (the server), wouldn't it affect the other 3 computers too?

I know 1) doesn't apply -- definitely NTFS. 2) I will get him to check -- do you mean that if Guest is enabled, it could be interfering with attempts to share using "Joe"? 3) Do you mean there may be another enabled account that is using the same password as Joe? Sorry if I'm being a bit thick here but I want to understand. Could you possibly expand on those points a bit more, please?

Thanks for your time and help.

--
Nightowl
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