D&*ned WinXP Junk!!!!
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LAst week I built my first WinXP Peer-to-Peer network, and after much hassle with undocumented bs, it was working perfectly. Today I spent most of the day on the phone trying to install a program that requires a shared database. I installed the first station, along with the master database, and all went well. The db was installed in the root of the C: drive, as should work with any previous version of Windoze. But when I installed the client of another PC and tried to access the db, it told me that access was denied! I shared the bejeezus out of the db - Everyone has full control, and all four users have admin accounts on all three machines. But still it insists that access is denied. Online Help is useless, as always with Micro$oft products, and the problem is worsened because Dell has replaced the standard help with their own even more clueless help system! The default simple network sharing option is off, and security is shamefully lax with all users having full control of everything on all machines, but the so^ of a b*&^h will not allow access!!! I uninstalled the original db and reinstalled it to the host's Shared Folders directory, and I can now suddenly access it from other PCs on the network, but I don't want it there. Is there any way to make a WinXP P2P network actually useful? This Signature is Temporarily Out of Order
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LAst week I built my first WinXP Peer-to-Peer network, and after much hassle with undocumented bs, it was working perfectly. Today I spent most of the day on the phone trying to install a program that requires a shared database. I installed the first station, along with the master database, and all went well. The db was installed in the root of the C: drive, as should work with any previous version of Windoze. But when I installed the client of another PC and tried to access the db, it told me that access was denied! I shared the bejeezus out of the db - Everyone has full control, and all four users have admin accounts on all three machines. But still it insists that access is denied. Online Help is useless, as always with Micro$oft products, and the problem is worsened because Dell has replaced the standard help with their own even more clueless help system! The default simple network sharing option is off, and security is shamefully lax with all users having full control of everything on all machines, but the so^ of a b*&^h will not allow access!!! I uninstalled the original db and reinstalled it to the host's Shared Folders directory, and I can now suddenly access it from other PCs on the network, but I don't want it there. Is there any way to make a WinXP P2P network actually useful? This Signature is Temporarily Out of Order
Strange problem Roger. Reading your post I get the feeling that there is something incorrect with the database configuration, rather than sharing, but I'm not really sure. What kind of database are you using ? Regards, Venet. Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos.
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Strange problem Roger. Reading your post I get the feeling that there is something incorrect with the database configuration, rather than sharing, but I'm not really sure. What kind of database are you using ? Regards, Venet. Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos.
It's a straight flatfile - .mdb database. The mfr tech had me install it to the C: root, which works fine on all previous versions of Windows. Everything installed perfectly on the primary host, and after sharing the db, I could browse it from other hosts on the net. But I can't open it without an 'Access Denied' message. In XP, you can add share users via a dialog; the dialog lists all users by machine and username (ie, \\UWCRR1\Roger). You can look in other locations, but clicking that button displays only the one host, not the other two. In Help, this is supposed to mean that the machine isn't on a network, yet print sharing, Internet routing, and file sharing from the Shared Folders directory works fine - obviously it's networked correctly. I removed the program after the tech hung up in frustration and reinstalled it to the Shared Folders directory, and suddenly it worked correctly on the other hosts. But I don't want to use that directory - it clutters up the view for all users, and might get damaged by one of the users accidentally trying to open it. Access dbs are fragile that way, and the users shouldn't have to deal with the visual clutter! XP Sucks! This Signature is Temporarily Out of Order
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LAst week I built my first WinXP Peer-to-Peer network, and after much hassle with undocumented bs, it was working perfectly. Today I spent most of the day on the phone trying to install a program that requires a shared database. I installed the first station, along with the master database, and all went well. The db was installed in the root of the C: drive, as should work with any previous version of Windoze. But when I installed the client of another PC and tried to access the db, it told me that access was denied! I shared the bejeezus out of the db - Everyone has full control, and all four users have admin accounts on all three machines. But still it insists that access is denied. Online Help is useless, as always with Micro$oft products, and the problem is worsened because Dell has replaced the standard help with their own even more clueless help system! The default simple network sharing option is off, and security is shamefully lax with all users having full control of everything on all machines, but the so^ of a b*&^h will not allow access!!! I uninstalled the original db and reinstalled it to the host's Shared Folders directory, and I can now suddenly access it from other PCs on the network, but I don't want it there. Is there any way to make a WinXP P2P network actually useful? This Signature is Temporarily Out of Order
Problem solved! I think... XP will not share with users unless all users are using passwords - the default user setttings won't work. Yesterday I reconfigured all users to have passwords, then created a group for the db program users and added users to it. I re-installed the program and shared the db folder with the new group and, voila!, it worked:-) Many thanks to the authors of this[^] article! Maybe I'll summarize it and publish a tutorial for other CP users...