Accessing a share

[Mike in Nebraska]

Small company peer-to-peer network. WinXP Pro clients. Office Manager
created a share to data folders of bookkeeping app for me. Has worked fine
until this week. She's gone on vacation so I can't log into her PC. Both
Friday and today I can see the share, but can't get into it. I get a
message that it's inaccessible, probably due to insufficient permissions.
I've rebooted both machines today and last Friday - no luck. Yesterday,
however, I got in with no problems.

What can I dig into when she gets back to see what the problem was? (I
already checked the Event logs on my end - nothing. Also created an
exception to Firewall to allow traffic for this application.)

Mike

 

[Pegasus [MVP]]

Small company peer-to-peer network. WinXP Pro clients. Office Manager
created a share to data folders of bookkeeping app for me. Has worked
fine until this week. She's gone on vacation so I can't log into her PC.
Both Friday and today I can see the share, but can't get into it. I get a
message that it's inaccessible, probably due to insufficient permissions.
I've rebooted both machines today and last Friday - no luck. Yesterday,
however, I got in with no problems.

What can I dig into when she gets back to see what the problem was? (I
already checked the Event logs on my end - nothing. Also created an
exception to Firewall to allow traffic for this application.)

Mike

Your password on the host might have expired or your account might be locked
due to too many unsuccessful attempts. If you can't reach the key person
(your office manager in this case) then there is something fundamentally
wrong with the way things are organised at your place of work. In IT one
always arranges for an emergency line (e.g. mobile phone) AND a backup
person to stand in. What if your office manager has an accident and cannot
be reached for a week or two?

 

[Mike in Nebraska]

OK, thanks.

Your password on the host might have expired or your account might be
locked due to too many unsuccessful attempts. If you can't reach the key
person (your office manager in this case) then there is something
fundamentally wrong with the way things are organised at your place of
work. In IT one always arranges for an emergency line (e.g. mobile phone)
AND a backup person to stand in. What if your office manager has an
accident and cannot be reached for a week or two?

 

[John Wunderlich]

Small company peer-to-peer network. WinXP Pro clients. Office
Manager created a share to data folders of bookkeeping app for me.
Has worked fine until this week. She's gone on vacation so I
can't log into her PC. Both Friday and today I can see the share,
but can't get into it. I get a message that it's inaccessible,
probably due to insufficient permissions. I've rebooted both
machines today and last Friday - no luck. Yesterday, however, I
got in with no problems.

What can I dig into when she gets back to see what the problem
was? (I already checked the Event logs on my end - nothing. Also
created an exception to Firewall to allow traffic for this
application.)

Mike

Boot her machine from a Live Linux CD such as Knoppix. You can then
copy the files you need off to a USB drive or thumbdrive and transport
to your machine.

Knoppix:
<http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html>

HTH,
John

 

[Mike in Nebraska]

Good to know, thanks.

Boot her machine from a Live Linux CD such as Knoppix. You can then
copy the files you need off to a USB drive or thumbdrive and transport
to your machine.

Knoppix:
<http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html>

HTH,
John