Can't see shared NTFS on laptop from Win XP desktop

[FrankA]

I have 2 PCs. One is a desktop with 3 hard drives which
can dual boot XP home or WIN98. Drive C is a FAT32 WIN 98
boot, Drive D is a FAT32 XP Home boot and drive E is NTFS
with no boot. Second PC is Windows 2000 with single NTFS
boot drive.
On the laptop I have shared the C drive and the CD drive.
From the desktop, while booted as XP Home, I can path to
either the C share or the CD share on the laptop but
although the C drive shows as a letter in my drive list
it is "drive not found" if I try to access it and the
properties show as File System = RAW. The CD share works
fine. If I check properties from the laptop, the file
system = NTFS.
The XP system has no problem reading & writing to the E
drive NTFS but it has a problem with the WIN 2K share
NTFS. Have I got something set wrong? Is there a way
around this without changing file systems on any of my
drives?

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

I have 2 PCs. One is a desktop with 3 hard drives which
can dual boot XP home or WIN98. Drive C is a FAT32 WIN 98
boot, Drive D is a FAT32 XP Home boot and drive E is NTFS
with no boot. Second PC is Windows 2000 with single NTFS
boot drive.
On the laptop I have shared the C drive and the CD drive.
From the desktop, while booted as XP Home, I can path to
either the C share or the CD share on the laptop but
although the C drive shows as a letter in my drive list
it is "drive not found" if I try to access it and the
properties show as File System = RAW. The CD share works
fine. If I check properties from the laptop, the file
system = NTFS.
The XP system has no problem reading & writing to the E
drive NTFS but it has a problem with the WIN 2K share
NTFS. Have I got something set wrong? Is there a way
around this without changing file systems on any of my
drives?

Frank,

the file system is transparent to the network, however, access
rights exist only on NTFS and are effective also when the
partition is accessed over the network. Check those access
rights.

For some more details, please have a look at
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxNetwork.htm.

Hans-Georg