re: File sharing between Win 98 and Win XP
Tuesday, February 22, 2005 at 8:41 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Nicolas
(2 messages posted)
I am having a similar problem, only in reverse.
I have three winXP machines that cannot create new files on a mapped win98 share.
- all three XP machines in question are dell 4700s.
- problem only occurs in Office 2000 programs (upgrading to XP is not an option).
- problem only occurs when creating a new file directly from said Office 2000 programs.
saving the file locally, then copy/pasting to the share drive works like a charm,
it is only when the user tries to save the file directly to the mapped shared drive
that an error occurs saying " The folder name isn't accessible. The folder may be
located on an unavailable volume or protected with a password."
i'm completedly stumped.
On Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 4:42 pm, Scott wrote:
>I'm helping a school with a Win98 and WinXP file/mapped drive sharing issue. The
> pseudo server used to be a Win98 machine with mapped drives. These folders contained
>files for programs the kids used. When they are done creating whatever they work
>on they then save off to another folder (mapped drive). Now that the pseudo server
>is a new WinXP Home machine we're seeing something very strange. Half the machines,
>8 in total, cannot seem to access the XP machine when opening, what should be,
a
>shared file. I've checked all the settings between the 8 PCs and the XP machine
>and I believe all is set correctly. If I shutdown 4 of the PCs then the other 4
>can get on fine. If all 8 are on only four can access the shared drives. You see
>this error, or message, on boot up. Cannot access Drive E:(blah blah), then the
>next shared drive and so on until it's gone through all shared drives.
>
>Any ideas?
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