Techy Question....Networking..

[fish]

Right had this one before and managed to stumble a fix after a week, which I've now forgotten.

Two Pc's on a network both can see and oping each other but as soon as you try to mapp a drive or open the seen folder the error message:

*****drive is not accessable. You may not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.

Not enough server storage is availiable to process this command.

B###cks... both Pc's have no Microsoft firewall on. and they are all shared correctly. I even get this message when I select shared folders within my network places relating to the same PC.

What is the problem, all help appreciated.

James

[FunkyNige]

Is file and printer sharing installed in the LAN properties window?
Have you allowed sharing?
Is there another firewall running?

[fish]

YEP file and print sharing there, sharing enabled and okay permissions and yes there is a hardware firewall but that is nothing to do with the prob as they don't have to got through it

[JP]

Dont know the proper answer,but...

In W2K have got around this problem by creating the user doing the mapping on the machine being mapped to.

hope that makes sense.

PC1 user wants to map to PC2 drive, create PC1 user ID on PC2 with the relevant permissions, then map.

Should work...

[squirrelz]

Yes agree with the last post, you need to have the same userid and password on both machines.

[plotloss]

Yep last two have been on the money, its either that or a domain controller to centralise the user accounts...

[fish]

Tried all that but not domain controller cause I don't understand still won't work though. The XP Home machine won't even open it's own drive from Network places.

Annoying thing is I had this problem before and solved it but I can't remember now....

[Podie]

You running SP2 on these machines..?

[Mrs Fish]

No he's not

[Podie]

OK, find the IP address of one PC, and then see if you can ping it from the other one...

[Mrs Fish]

They both ping ok, no problems, just won't open the other computer to map a drive? does that make any sense?

[Podie]

Well if you can ping one from the other, then they can see each other over the network...

This would suggest that it's a firewall issue (discounted as it's not running)... or a sharing issue.

I assume you cannot map a drive directly..?

\FIRSTPCSHARE

from the run command..?

[Mrs Fish]

He needs to try that but he is in the middle of a firefight on the other PC

[Podie]

Mrs Fish said:

He needs to try that but he is in the middle of a firefight on the other PC

I assume all the PC's have exactly the same workgroup name...?


EDITED FOR SUCK-EGGS INSTRUCTION...

Click Start, and then click Control Panel... Double-click System, and then click the Computer Name tab. If you need to modify the workgroup name, click Change.

>> Edited by Podie on Friday 27th August 21:24

[Mrs Fish]

[chim_girl]

Mrs Fish said:

he is in the middle of a firefight on the other PC

:snigger: Sounds familiar.

[Podie]

XP Home only uses "simple file sharing"... this means files are either shared to everyone or not shared at all. e.g. permissions cannot be changed...

XP Pro supports Simple File Sharing and standard, permissions-based file sharing... so if one is XP Pro.. you need to make sure that it's switched to Simple File Sharing...

[Mrs Fish]

Fish says: Why can't the XP Home machine, see its own share folder within workgroup?

[Mrs Fish]

and why is XP Home Bollocks?

[Podie]

Mrs Fish said:

and why is XP Home Bollocks?

It's a feature..! Like... d'uh!