Win2k Pro cannot see Shared Folder.

[ADAM]

I am the IT guy for my company and this problem has really
got me stumped. One of our users cannot see the shared
folders on one of our servers. This is crucial because
many of our program links go directly to this server. The
funny things are everybody else can see them fine, he can
see all other shared folders on other servers fine, and he
is definatly in Domain Users which has full control of all
the shared folders on this server. I can navigate to the
problematic server, and even ping it, but there are no
folders shared there. This just started today for no
appartent reason. The user stated that he was using the
program and then it just exited. Then the link would work
(Because the shared folder disappeared). I have noticed
that if I log in under the administrator account I still
experience the same problem. He is coming in to work
tomorrow so I have to get this running before I leave
tonight. I'm about to make him a new Active Directory
account but I would much rather fix this!
Anyone have any ideas??

* Servers and client computers are Windows 2000 Pro
enviroment.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I am the IT guy for my company and this problem has really
got me stumped. One of our users cannot see the shared
folders on one of our servers. This is crucial because
many of our program links go directly to this server. The
funny things are everybody else can see them fine, he can
see all other shared folders on other servers fine, and he
is definatly in Domain Users which has full control of all
the shared folders on this server. I can navigate to the
problematic server, and even ping it, but there are no
folders shared there. This just started today for no
appartent reason. The user stated that he was using the
program and then it just exited. Then the link would work
(Because the shared folder disappeared). I have noticed
that if I log in under the administrator account I still
experience the same problem. He is coming in to work
tomorrow so I have to get this running before I leave
tonight. I'm about to make him a new Active Directory
account but I would much rather fix this!
Anyone have any ideas??

* Servers and client computers are Windows 2000 Pro
enviroment.

You need to determine a few things before you can solve your problem:

- Is the problem user-specific, or PC specific? (Meaning: does it
affect all users on the problem PC, or does it travel with the user
to any PC?)
- Is the user validated by the domain or by the local machine?
- What happens when you operate out of a Command Prompt
(e.g. net use x: \\SomeServer\SomeShare)
- If you normally log on to the domain, how about logging on locally
for a change, then doing this:
net use x: \\SomeServer\SomeShare /user:YourDomainName\adam
- Have you checked your Share permissions (as opposed to NTFS
permissions). They are supposed to be "Full Access" for everyone.