C-drive sharing, can it REALLY be done

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George

Have simple setup of two WinXP-pro PC's, linked by Linksys firewall
router/hub. All I want is for PC#2 to allow its entire C-drive to be viewed
and files copied as needed on PC#2. (It was very easy/fast on my old Win98
PC's.) Here's what didn't work on WinXP so far...

1) Simple file sharing simply too restrictive, it blocks several folders
entirely, says so on Microsoft knowledge base.

2) Using the Setup Wizard and "make setup disk" that Linksys recommends
doesn't work either, and I get some spooler error when used it anyway.

3) Manually setting up FULL file sharing still seems to have lots of "Access
Denied or 'do not have permission'" areas. And I already did common sense
things like uncheck ICF firewall, and make sure workgroup name is uniform.

Just discovered Microsoft article 318030, says turn on NetBIOS over TCP/IP.
Is this the problem?

Can anyone suggest a few simple steps to start all over (erase whatever
settings I made) and step by step get this to work... Like Start > Control
Panel > Network > select such and such.

Thanks, greatly appreciate
 
Have you tried using Full File Sharing and creating
identical usernames and passwords on both machines ?

Regards,

Tim
 
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