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Connecting to windows 2000 pro machine to windows xp home machine

 
 
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      9th Sep 2003
I have a new notebook computer running XP Home. I'm
connecting to a network at work with a total of three
computers. When i go to "My Network Places" the XP Home
machine recognizes that the windows 2000 machine is
connected to the network. When I double click on it to
access the shared files I get this message:

\\staff is not accessible. You might not have permission
to use this network resource. Contact the administrator
of this server to find out if you have access
permissions. The network path was not found.

I've done a lot of searching and tried a few things but
nothing works so far.

 
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      9th Sep 2003
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.... is not accessible

Message: "....is not accessible. You may not have permission to use this
network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if
you have access permissions. The semaphore timeout period has expired."

Resolutions:
1) make sure no any firewall running.
2) make sure you have created the same workgroup, and the same username on
w2k/xp for logging on a remote computer.
3) check user's rights.
4) you may want to enable guest account on w2k/xp.
5) if you are using simple file sharing, you may try to disable it and
re-share the drive manually.
6) if it is mixed OS (win98, NT, ME and W2K/XP) network, enable NetBIOS over
TCP/IP.
7) make sure the Computer Browser service is started if all computers are
w2k/xp.
8) stop Computer Browser service on win9x, ME and NT if this is a mixed OS
network.
9) cache credential by using net use \\computername\share /user:username
command (it is better to have the username logon shared computer).
10) if you have tried enabling netbios over tcp/ip but doesn't work, you may
try to load netbeui (loading netbeui may slow your network).
11) Make sure the server service is running.
12) If you can see the share in Network Neighborhood but not access it, this
issue may be resolved by verifying that both the share permissions and the
NTFS partition permissions are correctly configured for individual user or
group access.



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"cb" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have a new notebook computer running XP Home. I'm
> connecting to a network at work with a total of three
> computers. When i go to "My Network Places" the XP Home
> machine recognizes that the windows 2000 machine is
> connected to the network. When I double click on it to
> access the shared files I get this message:
>
> \\staff is not accessible. You might not have permission
> to use this network resource. Contact the administrator
> of this server to find out if you have access
> permissions. The network path was not found.
>
> I've done a lot of searching and tried a few things but
> nothing works so far.
>



 
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