>>>>>>>>>>>>>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)?
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>>>>>>>>>>>>Which machine contains the drives you want to share - the XP or the W2K?
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>>>>>>>>>>>W2k has the driver that I want to share; that it, have access to it from XP.
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>>>>>>>>>>Have you already created the share on the W2K machine?
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>>>>>>>>>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.
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>>>>>>>>OK, that's good. Assuming:
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>>>>>>>>- your W2K machine's name is "W2K"
>>>>>>>>- the share name you just created is "D"
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>>>>>>>>By default a share has read-only access, you may want to set that to read-write if necessary.
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>>>>>>>>Then, on the XP machine, in a CMD window you should be able to issue
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>>>>>>>>NET USE Z: \\W2K\D /persistent:y
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>>>>>>>The above command returns "The network path was not found".
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>>>>>>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?
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>>>>>Yes, exactly. And I tried to use D and D$ with the same result (network path not found).
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>>>>Have you explicitly enabled NetBIOS over TCP/IP as outlined on the other branch of this thread?
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>>>>By default, there is no firewall with W2K. Have you installed any 3rd party firewall such as ZoneAlarm, Norton Internet Security etc.?
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>>>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"
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>>Is there any other firewall? Many antivirus suites have their own firewall as well.
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>There is a personal antivirus AVAST but I dont think it has a fire wall.

Are you sure? And are you sure your Comodo firewall is disabled? Many of them, by default only disable themselves for a short time period - maybe that has elapsed.

If there is no firewall blocking access, and you have NetBIOS over TCP/IP enabled then the NET USE command listed above should work. Its advantage is it works in the event that NetBIOS network browsing is not working or not up-to-date.