Access Denied

I have a small network with a Windows 98SE computer, 2 windows XP Home computers, and a Windows XP Professional computer. All of them show up on the network and three of them share files just fine. It's the Pro machine that won't share. The error msg is: \\computernameis not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Access is denied." This machine can open files from the other computers. So it is not connectivity.

I configured it to share files and printers, I have named the shared folders, I have turned off every mention of firewall I could find, and I turned on Simple Sharing.

What am I missing?

 

Is the file system on the XP Pro, NTFS or FAT32. You can go from an NTFS system to FAT32, but not the reverse.

 

You have a third party firewall (yes I saw where you said you tunred off every mention of a firewall) but that is the classic error for a third party firewall.

Turn OFF Simple File Sharing

 

Yes, I can PING the PRO computer

 

The XP computers are NTFS, the 98 is FAT32. However, the 98 can open files on the other 2 XP Home machines.

 

Turn Off Simple File Sharing
Make Sure the File/Folder is Actually Marked As Shared
Make Sure YOu have Enabled permissions not only on the Share but the Folders as well by using the Everyone permission

 

Turned off Simple File Sharing

I have (I think) enabled sharing...even on the root of C: at this point...and under the tab for permissions, selected Everyone and Full Access. I'm not sure about what you mean by "not only on the Share but the Folders as well...

 

You not only have top have permissions on the share but the folder or files within the share.

Say that I want to Share a Folder named Temp on the C Drive and within that Folder is a Folder named Whatever. You have to give Permissions to the Share (the Temp Folder) and also to the Whatever Folder.

Note that on the XP Home machines, the only folder you can Share in the Share Folder in Documents & Settings All users.

 

I have pillor-to-post on shares...permissions...the last thing I tried was through Control Panel>Admin tools>Local Security where I disabled "Limit local account use of blank passwords to console login only (which was to allow network access w/o a password).

I haven't been into the Registry because this problem is exactly the same as a small network I am working on for another person...he has a Pro computer that shares and one that will not...so I have been thinking it is something about setting up the Pro machine on my network and on his...but not a registry thing. But tell me the fixes - I'm ready to try just about anything!

 

Thank you to all who responded. I learned more from each of you. As it turned out, for the home network the break was when I created a log in name for each of what would be the clients to the XP Pro w/o needing a password. For the other network, the break was when I finally did find 3rd party firewall software running.

Thanks again for all the help

 

That's good to hear.