Access is denied????

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Dustin

I have good sized network with systems running 98SE, 2000
Pro, XP Home and XP Pro. I am having a problem with some
systems not being able to access others. Say I have a
system running 2000 Pro and I can not access certain
systems using 2000 Pro or any XP. I either
get "\\SystemName\Folder is not accessible. Access is
denied." or I get prompted to enter username and
password. What am I doing wrong and how do I fix it???
 
Dustin said:
I have good sized network with systems running 98SE, 2000
Pro, XP Home and XP Pro. I am having a problem with some
systems not being able to access others. Say I have a
system running 2000 Pro and I can not access certain
systems using 2000 Pro or any XP. I either
get "\\SystemName\Folder is not accessible. Access is
denied." or I get prompted to enter username and
password. What am I doing wrong and how do I fix it???
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well, you could enter username and password. you don't say how your network
is organized, what kind of server, domain or workgroup, isolated from the
internet, behind a firewall, stuff like that... though with xp home on the
network i would guess its not a domain... this would make it harder as there
is no central password source so you have to have the same accounts with the
same passwords on systems that you want to access each other... or enable
the guest account on the nt/2k/xp systems, though that leaves you open to
attacks if you are exposed to the internet.
 
The network has a server running 2k Server. It is a
mixture of domain and workgroup. The ones that can run
domains do, the ones that can't don't. All systems have
access to the internet but no firewall yet. I don't want
to enter a username and password everytime I want access
to that system files. Plus some of the people here need
the simplest way to do things... Anything else you need
to know...
 
The network has a server running 2k Server. It is a
mixture of domain and workgroup. The ones that can run
domains do, the ones that can't don't. All systems have
access to the internet but no firewall yet. I don't want
to enter a username and password everytime I want access
to that system files. Plus some of the people here need
the simplest way to do things... Anything else you need
to know...
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you really want to get a firewall.

if you are on a machine on the domain, logging in with a user account that
is on the domain, and connecting to a machine that is on the domain then you
should have access. machines that are on the workgroup will have to login
to the domain machines either with a domain user account, or by enabling the
guest account on the machine they want to get to... there really isn't a
pretty way to do it for the workgroup only machines...

there is one possible workaround that may give you some access without
logging in on each machine. create a generic account on the domain, then
map a net work drive from the workgroup machine to the server using that
generic account... set it to reconnect at login. once you are connected to
the server it should let you use printers and maybe access other machines on
the domain(though i don't remember if this part works or not, its been a
while since i used this 'fix').

connecting from a domain machine to a workgroup machine you will just have
to login unless you can enable the guest account on the workgroup machine.
 
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