I have two  Win2K machines at home.  They are in the same workgroup, and there is 
no domain server.   File & Print Sharing is enabled.

My problem is that I want to share some folders, but can't seem to make it happen. 
 In the first machine I have set sharing on a folder, but I can't access it from 
the second machine.  

Let's call one machine FIRST and the other machine SECOND.  In the FIRST machine, 
I have a folder called C:\SHAREME which I have set to shared, and have given full 
control to the administrator group.  From the SECOND machine, I can see FIRST in 
my Network Neighborhood, and vice versa.

How do I get FIRST to let the admin on SECOND see and share the SHAREME folder?

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Fed-up
Add the user name and the password to both machines







On Wednesday, December 29, 2004 at 8:25 am, Fed-up wrote:

>I have two  Win2K machines at home.  They are in the same workgroup, and there is 

>no domain server.   File & Print Sharing is enabled.

>

>My problem is that I want to share some folders, but can't seem to make it happen. 

> In the first machine I have set sharing on a folder, but I can't access it from 

>the second machine.  

>

>Let's call one machine FIRST and the other machine SECOND.  In the FIRST machine, 

>I have a folder called C:\SHAREME which I have set to shared, and have given full 

>control to the administrator group.  From the SECOND machine, I can see FIRST in 

>my Network Neighborhood, and vice versa.

>

>How do I get FIRST to let the admin on SECOND see and share the SHAREME folder? 

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Already done, Dex.   All accounts & passwords are duplicated.

A possible clue - FIRST is formatted as FAT32 while SECOND is formatted as NTFS. 
 Problem?  I've found I can share SECOND with FIRST, but not vice versa.

To test that, I created a folder on SECOND, then shared it, giving full access to 
EVERYONE.  I could immediately see it from FIRST, and I created a text file in it 
from FIRST.  Back on SECOND, there's the text file.

When I try to connect to FIRST from SECOND, I'm prompted for a username & password. 
 Nothing is accepted.

When I try to connect to SECOND from FIRST , I'm NOT prompted for a username & password. 
  It's just THERE.

??









On Wednesday, December 29, 2004 at 8:57 am, DEX wrote:

>Fed-up

>Add the user name and the password to both machines
 

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When prompted for the password, try prefixing the machine name to the userid id, 
ie FIRST\username. 
And on FIRST, try giving rights explicitly to SECOND\username. 

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Tried that, Adrian.  It wouldn't accept that.

BUT!  One thing I DIDN'T try, which I should have thought of already.

What's the Windows user's first line of defense for wierd problems?

Reboot.

I rebooted FIRST, and no more problem.

*sigh*

Thanks for the help, gentlemen!








On Wednesday, December 29, 2004 at 9:12 am, adrian wrote:

>When prompted for the password, try prefixing the machine name to the userid id, 

>ie FIRST\username. 

>And on FIRST, try giving rights explicitly to SECOND\username.  

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