My wired home LAN consists three PCs, two Laptops and a Tower. The
Tower and one Laptop are both running XP PRO SP2. A 3rd Laptop runs
WIN98SE. The WIN98SE machine runs fine with both other PCs on the LAN.
Both XP PCs can use the 98SE files.

All folders I have shared on the XP Laptop appear in XP Tower's My
Network Places. But on the Tower, some XP Laptop folders will not open:
'Desktop' 'SharedDocs', 'My Pictures'. Error message [always the same]
is LaptopXP/Desktop is not accessible.... " "Access denied". XP
Laptop folders My Documents/'My Video', 'My Music' can be opened on
Tower but XP Laptop My Documents/My Pictures' cannot.

Every XP Laptop folder which I cannot open in the Tower, are all usable
in the XP Laptop. From the XP Laptop, every Tower Folder in My Network
Places is usable.

On both XP Laptop and XP Tower folders, I checked Sharing and
Security settings. Both seem to be the same. On which PC should the
changes be made?

Really need help with this problem. Thanks, Dave_s

Remember XP Pro is a USER level security model, where Windows 98 (unless
it's configured for a domain) is a SHARE level security model. On Windows
98, you basically have the option to just check the "full access" box and
not worry about security at all. In XP (and the NTFS filesystem), share
permissions and file permissions are assigned to users. You must create an
account on each XP machine that matches whatever you are using as the logon
account on the other. Also, by default XP requires a password for network
access. Users with a blank password will be denied (there's a registry hack
to change this behavior - Google). So if you logon to XP-1 as "Mike" with a
password of "password", there must be an account on XP-2 with username
"Mike" and password "password". That account must have both share
permissions and file permissions to access the share/folder.

....kurt


"Dave_s" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> My wired home LAN consists three PCs, two Laptops and a Tower. The Tower
> and one Laptop are both running XP PRO SP2. A 3rd Laptop runs WIN98SE.
> The WIN98SE machine runs fine with both other PCs on the LAN.
> Both XP PCs can use the 98SE files.
>
> All folders I have shared on the XP Laptop appear in XP Tower's My Network
> Places. But on the Tower, some XP Laptop folders will not open: 'Desktop'
> 'SharedDocs', 'My Pictures'. Error message [always the same] is
> LaptopXP/Desktop is not accessible.... " "Access denied". XP Laptop
> folders My Documents/'My Video', 'My Music' can be opened on Tower but XP
> Laptop My Documents/My Pictures' cannot.
>
> Every XP Laptop folder which I cannot open in the Tower, are all usable in
> the XP Laptop. From the XP Laptop, every Tower Folder in My Network Places
> is usable.
>
> On both XP Laptop and XP Tower folders, I checked Sharing and Security
> settings. Both seem to be the same. On which PC should the changes be
> made?
>
> Really need help with this problem. Thanks, Dave_s

I already have those matching accounts on both XP machines.
I believe they do have the matching share/folder settings. But, I may
have overlooked something vital. I am not sure what to look for.
..... Dave_s

Kurt wrote:
> Remember XP Pro is a USER level security model, where Windows 98 (unless
> it's configured for a domain) is a SHARE level security model. On Windows
> 98, you basically have the option to just check the "full access" box and
> not worry about security at all. In XP (and the NTFS filesystem), share
> permissions and file permissions are assigned to users. You must create an
> account on each XP machine that matches whatever you are using as the logon
> account on the other. Also, by default XP requires a password for network
> access. Users with a blank password will be denied (there's a registry hack
> to change this behavior - Google). So if you logon to XP-1 as "Mike" with a
> password of "password", there must be an account on XP-2 with username
> "Mike" and password "password". That account must have both share
> permissions and file permissions to access the share/folder.
>
> ...kurt
>
>
> "Dave_s" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>>My wired home LAN consists three PCs, two Laptops and a Tower. The Tower
>>and one Laptop are both running XP PRO SP2. A 3rd Laptop runs WIN98SE.
>>The WIN98SE machine runs fine with both other PCs on the LAN.
>>Both XP PCs can use the 98SE files.
>>
>>All folders I have shared on the XP Laptop appear in XP Tower's My Network
>>Places. But on the Tower, some XP Laptop folders will not open: 'Desktop'
>>'SharedDocs', 'My Pictures'. Error message [always the same] is
>>LaptopXP/Desktop is not accessible.... " "Access denied". XP Laptop
>>folders My Documents/'My Video', 'My Music' can be opened on Tower but XP
>>Laptop My Documents/My Pictures' cannot.
>>
>>Every XP Laptop folder which I cannot open in the Tower, are all usable in
>>the XP Laptop. From the XP Laptop, every Tower Folder in My Network Places
>>is usable.
>>
>>On both XP Laptop and XP Tower folders, I checked Sharing and Security
>>settings. Both seem to be the same. On which PC should the changes be
>>made?
>>
>>Really need help with this problem. Thanks, Dave_s
>
>
>