File Sharing Problems

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I eagerly await the response to this thread as I have a very similiar
problem. I too have a wireless network with the WRT54G router (although I
don't think its a router problem either). My remote computer is running XP
Pro sp2 and my other computer is XP Home sp2, both access the internet fine
and I print without difficulties using both computers.

The desktop has two hard drives, one is in FAT32 format, the other is NTFS.
File sharing is enabled equally on both (I think). I am able to file share
with the remote computer any files on the FAT32 hard drive 100% of the time;
however, if I try to copy any files to the remote computer from the NFTS hard
drive on the desktop, I get the same message: ...Access is denied. Make sure
disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use
.... 100% of the time. I browse the directory tree of the desktop without any
difficulty just can't copy to / write to the remote computer.

Interestingly, I am unable to copy from the desktop's NFTS harddrive to the
desktop's FAT32 harddrive (using the remote computer's Explorer) without the
same error message above.

I am able to access and copy from the remote computer (an NFTS format) to
the desktop no problem however.

Thanks,

(Sorry wasn't a help for you Blaine).

Mark Ryser
"Blaine Hamrick" wrote:

> Let me begin by thanking anyone who can shed any light at all on my
> networking problem. I have a typical wireless network with the Linksys
> WRT54G as the gateway/router. I'm able to have nice internet connections on
> all computers, and can even share some files, but the majority will not
> share. For example: I have two folders on each computer named "schematics",
> and they are shared with read and write privileges. The folder on the remote
> computer contains several files, but for the sake of the discussion one is
> named bilevel.gif and the other bmeter1.gif. I can copy the first file to
> the remote computer, but the second throws an error message stating, "Cannot
> copy bmeter1: Access is denied. Make sure disk is not full or
> write-protected and that the file is not currently in use." The disk is far
> from full and not write-protected, nor is the file in use.
>
> I do not believe that the wireless equipment is at fault, as some files will
> transfer, and others will not. The same thing happens on a Windows Me
> computer sometimes connected to the computer, but let's not complicate
> things now. I have legal copies of Windows XP Professional with SP1a and all
> later patches applied. I do not use SP2, as it is not compatible with the
> motherboard on this P3 system.
>
> Any input appreciated. Thank you!
> --
> Blaine Hamrick, AL7HH
> Irving, Texas 444.800 MHz, 110.9 Hz
> hamrick@gte.net
> http://home1.gte.net/hamrick
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