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I am currently experiencing the XP file sharing problem that many others have described and I’ve tried EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN to fix it (to no avail). I found a partial solution in a procedure from a Microsoft Windows XP Technical Article titled “Troubleshooting File and Printer Sharing in Microsoft Windows XPâ€, dated November 2003:
1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In Open, type \\ComputerName\ShareName (in which ComputerName is the name of the computer sharing the folder and ShareName is the name of the share when the folder was shared), and then press ENTER.
Doing this opens a window displaying the directory contents of the shared folder from the remote (server) computer. Double-clicking on the subfolders displays their contents (although the response can be slow) and double-clicking on the individual files opens them with the appropriate application if it is on the remote/server computer.
After executing steps 1 and 2 (above) the shared folder name will be displayed in the “My Network Places†window where double-clicking on it produces the expected results. The shared folder name remains displayed in “My Network Places†even after reboots.
Interestingly, double-clicking on ComputerName in Windows Explorer still produces the following message:
\\ComputerName is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. -- Access is denied.
Executing the procedure (steps 1 and 2 above) but just typing \\ComputerName followed by ENTER also produces the same error message.
In another curious development, after doing this then rebooting from a cold start the icons for “My Computer†and “My Network Places†are missing from the desktop, but the computer otherwise works OK.
1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In Open, type \\ComputerName\ShareName (in which ComputerName is the name of the computer sharing the folder and ShareName is the name of the share when the folder was shared), and then press ENTER.
Doing this opens a window displaying the directory contents of the shared folder from the remote (server) computer. Double-clicking on the subfolders displays their contents (although the response can be slow) and double-clicking on the individual files opens them with the appropriate application if it is on the remote/server computer.
After executing steps 1 and 2 (above) the shared folder name will be displayed in the “My Network Places†window where double-clicking on it produces the expected results. The shared folder name remains displayed in “My Network Places†even after reboots.
Interestingly, double-clicking on ComputerName in Windows Explorer still produces the following message:
\\ComputerName is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. -- Access is denied.
Executing the procedure (steps 1 and 2 above) but just typing \\ComputerName followed by ENTER also produces the same error message.
In another curious development, after doing this then rebooting from a cold start the icons for “My Computer†and “My Network Places†are missing from the desktop, but the computer otherwise works OK.