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31/01/2008 15:49:45
Al Doman (Online)
M3 Enterprises Inc.
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
 
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Forum:
Windows
Category:
Computing in general
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01287587
Message ID:
01287676
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>>>>>>>>>>>I have two computers connected to the same Linksys router. When I run IPCONFIG on one I see IP address 192.168.2.100, the other one is 192.168.2.101. In the My Computer -> System Properties both computers have the same name in Workgoup "MYCOMPANY". One computer is XP and another Win2000. How do I access shared drives from one computer (XP) on the other computer (Win2000)?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>Which machine contains the drives you want to share - the XP or the W2K?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>W2k has the driver that I want to share; that it, have access to it from XP.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Have you already created the share on the W2K machine?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I did. Here is how I did it. On Win 2000 I selected properties of the D: drive and checked the option to Share this folder.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>OK, that's good. Assuming:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>- your W2K machine's name is "W2K"
>>>>>>- the share name you just created is "D"
>>>>>>
>>>>>>By default a share has read-only access, you may want to set that to read-write if necessary.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Then, on the XP machine, in a CMD window you should be able to issue
>>>>>>
>>>>>>NET USE Z: \\W2K\D /persistent:y
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>The above command returns "The network path was not found".
>>>>
>>>>I assume you replaced the "W2K" machine name with whatever your W2K computer's actual name is, and likewise with the share name of the share you created?
>>>
>>>Yes, exactly. And I tried to use D and D$ with the same result (network path not found).
>>
>>Have you explicitly enabled NetBIOS over TCP/IP as outlined on the other branch of this thread?
>>
>>By default, there is no firewall with W2K. Have you installed any 3rd party firewall such as ZoneAlarm, Norton Internet Security etc.?
>
>I did change the NetBios but didn't rebook.
>
>There is Comodo Firewall installed on the W2k PC. But I disabled it by setting "Allow All"

Is there any other firewall? Many antivirus suites have their own firewall as well.
Regards. Al

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