Mapping network drive

[Steve]

I have 3 PC's on a small office network. All 3 are running WIN XP Home
and are connect via a DHCP by a Linksys Router. They all show up in
the workgroup on all 3 PC's. All PC's use the same user account
'OWNER' with no password. I have shared at least One folder on each
computer. They can all see each other on the network so a connection
problem is not an issue, but one 'PC_client' will not allow the other
two PC's to connect to it's folders I get the 'you do not have
permissions' message but yet I can log from PC1 to the others with no
problem and mapping a drive between the other two PC's I can do with
no problem. I have checked and the setup for sharing and it seems to
be the same on all PC's as it's simple sharing.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

[Chuck]

I have 3 PC's on a small office network. All 3 are running WIN XP Home
and are connect via a DHCP by a Linksys Router. They all show up in
the workgroup on all 3 PC's. All PC's use the same user account
'OWNER' with no password. I have shared at least One folder on each
computer. They can all see each other on the network so a connection
problem is not an issue, but one 'PC_client' will not allow the other
two PC's to connect to it's folders I get the 'you do not have
permissions' message but yet I can log from PC1 to the others with no
problem and mapping a drive between the other two PC's I can do with
no problem. I have checked and the setup for sharing and it seems to
be the same on all PC's as it's simple sharing.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Steve,

XP Home uses Simple File Sharing, and authenticates all file sharing requests
thru the Guest account.

On XP Home, make sure that the Guest account is enabled, on each computer.
Enable Guest with Start - Run - "cmd" - type "net user guest /active:yes" in the
command window.

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mining viruses. Learn to munge your email address properly, to keep yourself a
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Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

I get the 'you do not have
permissions' message

Steve,

I'd be grateful for a word-by-word citation of at least the
first two lines of the error message text. Could you cite that,
please?

Please have a look at http://www.michna.com/kb/wxnet.htm.

Hans-Georg