Access rights

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Jeffrey Eib

We have a small office mixed network running Windows 98, XP Home, and XP
Pro. We are in the process of changing over to being completely XP Pro.

We recently added a new computer to the network (call this computer 1). It
was set up the same as all the others. When it connects to the network, it
can see all the other computers on the network. It can open shared resources
on all the other computers except 1 (call this computer 2). The problem is
that computer 2 happens to be the one running the DBMS for the office, so
connection to computer 2 is essential.

Computer 2 can see and open shared resources on computer 1. Computer 1 can
see and ping computer 2, but when we try to open it, we receive the message
that computer 2 is inaccesible. And that computer 1 may not have appropriate
access rights to computer 2. As far as we can tell, there is no difference
between computer 1 and all the other XP Pro computers on the network. The
users are all signed on as Admin users.

We are stumped. Any help on this will be greatly appreciated.

Jeffrey Eib, Sr.
www.GarrettLiners.com
 
As an addendum.

As I said, if we try to open computer 2 to see its shared resources, we get
an error saying that we don't have appropriate access rights to the remote
server. However, we can connect to a shared folder on computer 2 from
computer 1 if we type in the address manually, e.g.
\\servername\sharedresource.

Using net view on computer 2 from computer 1 returns an error code of 5.

Any help is very appreciated.
 
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