Unique File Sharing Problem

have you shared any drives/folders on PC A?

It's a workgroup service issue. When I get home, I'll tell you what security policies need to be enabled and what services are required as well. I'm not at home right now, I'm on a real crappy work computer.

Just search in google for the exact error message and you'll probably be able to find the services and security policies needed before I get back to you. One service is the computer browser, I believe.

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what OS on each machine?

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Read this through before actually doing it.

Okay, what you want to do (and this is just the easy fix, there are other ways too) is first enable the guest account on both machines. You have to do it the back-door way. Go into the control panel - administrative tools - local security settings - local policies - security options.

Then, enable the Accounts: Guest Account Status option.

Under User Rights Assignment, make sure "Access this computer from the network" has "Everyone" listed there, as well as everything else.

Now, back under Administrative tools, go into services. Make sure the following is configured:
Computer browser - started, automatic
Secondary logon - started, automatic
Server - started, automatic
Workstation - started, automatic

Then, restart the machine. Now, most of what I said here actually applies to PC A. It's PC A that's not allowing PC B to access it. There is one last thing to add, as well.

In the dos prompt, type in net share. If IPC$ is not listed, then type in net share IPC$. That could also affect PC A.

All that may take care of it. If not, feel free to reply back with the specific error message. And, like I said, Google is a big friend with networking issues.

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minor nit..

you don't really need the same account and password on each machine, you can simply supply that as command line args on a net use command...

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yeah you could use something like:


net use G: \\computer1\sharename /user:username password /persistent:yes/no

but that'd probably give a problem. It'd be easier to just create the user account on each computer.. that way he could log in to either computer with the same user/password.

But you're right in what you're statement.


Actually I was thinking he might have to disable simple filing sharing in folder options/view - last options incase something got mixed up with ownership rights on the PC.. but that's just a thought.