Windows Server 2003 shared folders not accessible to XP clients...
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Hi, I've just set up Windows Server 2003 Standard as part of my networked computers. I created a shared folder for other PCs running XP. I granted full control of the shared folder to everyone. All networed computers are parts of the Workgroup; no domain. Now I can remote connect to 2003; I also can see the shared folder as part of the networked places on each XP machine. However, I cannot open the shared folder - my access to the shared folder is denied. What am I missing?
Best, Jun
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Hi, I've just set up Windows Server 2003 Standard as part of my networked computers. I created a shared folder for other PCs running XP. I granted full control of the shared folder to everyone. All networed computers are parts of the Workgroup; no domain. Now I can remote connect to 2003; I also can see the shared folder as part of the networked places on each XP machine. However, I cannot open the shared folder - my access to the shared folder is denied. What am I missing?
Best, Jun
You need to set both the rights for accessing the share via the network and the rights on the file system.
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You need to set both the rights for accessing the share via the network and the rights on the file system.
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Hi, I've just set up Windows Server 2003 Standard as part of my networked computers. I created a shared folder for other PCs running XP. I granted full control of the shared folder to everyone. All networed computers are parts of the Workgroup; no domain. Now I can remote connect to 2003; I also can see the shared folder as part of the networked places on each XP machine. However, I cannot open the shared folder - my access to the shared folder is denied. What am I missing?
Best, Jun
In Linux, being able to see the share and being able to access it are two different permissions, I can't recall exactly if that's the same case with Windows. Make sure that you've given permission to "Everyone" to access the share (not just be able to "see" it). Usually Windows file sharing (when you have an open share) is relatively simple, make sure something like a firewall isn't blocking access.
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Jun Du wrote:
What do you mean by setting the rights via the network?
You have already set the rights on the network when you gave Full Access to Everyone inthe Share permissions. Now you have to set the file (NTFS) permissions on the server. If, as I suspect you are logging ion to the XP machines using local accounts the Server will know nothing about them. So set the file permissions to grant Full Access to an account on the Server and then when you connect to the share enter the user details SERVER\User + Password and check the Remembere credentials (can't remeber wha it's called on XP any more) and XP will store the username and password and present it to the Server every time it needs to access the share.
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