Peer-to-Peer Problems

[CapCity]

Hope this the right ng for this, couldn't find one with a more appropriate
name.

We're trying to set up a simple peer-to-peer network with two machines
running Windows XP Pro SP1. There's a DLink 614+ router that both boxes are
physically connected to. We've googled a lot on this, and found a lot of
tutorials on adding a XP Machine to an exisiting network, or getting a
non-XP machine to work with an XP one, and lists of things to check, but
nothing has helped so far.

Both machines belong to the same workgroup, and have the same subnet mask.
Each has file shares set up. The same accounts are on both machines. Let's
say the machines are Box1 and Box2 and each has a User1 account. On Box1 we
try to map a drive to a share on Box2. So we put "\\Box2\Share1$" in for the
folder, and set it up to connect using a different user name. We try
"\\Box2\User1" as the user, and supply the password. It says it can't find
the other machine. Same thing when trying from Box2 to Box1. The shares are
there. We've also tried the user without the "\\". No luck.

Both machines can get to the internet and e-mail and all.

Someone thinks that maybe Box1 had the XP Network Wizard run it on it, but
he isn't sure. I've heard nothing but bad about that. Could that cause the
problem? How can we tell?

Any thoughts or suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

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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. Network path was not found."

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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