Re: XP Workgroup Share Write
- From: Malke <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:18:05 -0700
waldowv wrote:
"Malke" wrote:
waldowv wrote:I am trying to set up a network. All of our individual PCs run either Windows 2000 SP4 or XP. The computer are all currently connected via LAN. I am attempted to set up our brand new XP professional machine as a file server. I set one of its harddrives to be "shared", and set the access to the subfolders between two groups of users (those with full control and those with read-only type privledges). I set these settings by manually entering each user's name (which was also set up under users on the control panel).This doesn't sound like a firewall issue to me. Did you remember to disable Simple Sharing on the XP Pro box? Find it under the View tab in Folder Options.
When logging on to the server as any of the users from the remote PCs (full control users included), I cannot upload files to the server. I get the error "Cannot copy xxxxx. Access is denied. The source file may be in use." I don't understand why that would even be an issue on copying, but that is neither here nor there.
I assume this has to do with the XP firewall, but it seems that I have everything set up as far as I can tell. Please help. Thank you.
Also, how many computers are hitting that XP Pro box? You may be running into the inbound concurrent connections limitation:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314882
5 for XP Home
10 for XP Pro/Tablet/MCE
49 for SBS 2000
74 for SBS 2003
Unlimited for full Server O/Ses
Please be aware that the limitations apply to connections, not computers. One computer can - and often does - make more than one connection to another machine.
I don't quite understand what you are saying. In your first post, you said you had other computers running either Win2k or XP. Now you say this is the first connection made to this particular machine? I thought you said you already had a lan and you talk about logging into a server and that this machine you are setting up will be a pseudo-server. Since I can't see your computer and your network, here are my general network troubleshooting tips. You may have already done some of the work, but it never hurts to check. If you need more help and post back, please answer the question I asked you about how many computers are in your network using this new machine as a pseudo-server.
Thank you for your response. This is the first connection ever made to the XP machine, and no other computers are connected to it. Is there a way to find out how many connections there are between the machines?
I have disabled the simple file sharing.
What else could it be?
This is most commonly caused by a misconfigured firewall. Run the Network Setup Wizard on all XP computers, making sure to enable File & Printer Sharing, and reboot. The only "gotcha" is that this will turn on the XPSP2 Windows Firewall. If you aren't running a third-party firewall or have an antivirus with "Internet Worm Protection" (like Norton 2005/06) which acts as a firewall, then you're fine. If you have third-party firewall software, configure it to allow the Local Area Network traffic as trusted. I usually do this with my firewalls with an IP range. Ex. would be 192.168.1.0-192.168.1.254. Obviously you would substitute your correct subnet. IIRC, you need to configure firewalls and file sharing on the Win2k boxen manually.
If one or more of the computers is XP Pro or Media Center:
a. If you need Pro's ability to set fine-grained permissions, turn off Simple File Sharing (Folder Options>View tab) and create identical user accounts/passwords on all computers.
b. If you don't care about using Pro's advanced features, leave the Simple File Sharing enabled.
Simple File Sharing means that Guest (network) is enabled. This means that anyone without a user account on the target system can use its resources. This is a security hole but only you can decide if it matters in your situation.
Then create shares as desired. XP Home does not permit sharing of users' home directories (My Documents) or Program Files, but you can share folders inside those directories. A better choice is to simply use the Shared Documents folder.
If that doesn't work for you, here is an excellent network troubleshooter by MVP Hans-Georg Michna. Take the time to go through it and it will usually pinpoint the problem area(s) - http://winhlp.com/wxnet.htm
Malke
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