File sharing & network

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I recently bought a new external hard drive. I installed it on my tower
computer, which is part of a wireless network that I use along with a
laptop. I created three partitions, named R:, S: & T:. After I created them,
I set file sharing permissions, and was able to access all partitions with
either computer. Then I backed up both computers using Acronis: the tower to
partition S: and the laptop to partition R:. Now partition S: does not
appear on the list of network places on my laptop and when I attempt to
access either of the other partitions I get the message:

t: (or r:) is not accessible. You mmight not have permission to use this
network resource. Contact the administrator........
Not enough server storage is available to process this command.

I am able to access all other hard drives on this network. I am running XP
Pro SP2.

Any suggestions?
Jeff
 
Jeff Stanton said:
I recently bought a new external hard drive. I installed it on my tower
computer, which is part of a wireless network that I use along with a
laptop. I created three partitions, named R:, S: & T:. After I created
them, I set file sharing permissions, and was able to access all
partitions with either computer. Then I backed up both computers using
Acronis: the tower to partition S: and the laptop to partition R:. Now
partition S: does not appear on the list of network places on my laptop and
when I attempt to access either of the other partitions I get the message:

t: (or r:) is not accessible. You mmight not have permission to use this
network resource. Contact the administrator........
Not enough server storage is available to process this command.

I am able to access all other hard drives on this network. I am running XP
Pro SP2.

Any suggestions?
Jeff
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When I had problems accessing an external hard drive from another computer
on the same network I found the registry edit outlined in this article
helped solve the problem.

Description of the IRPStackSize parameter in Windows 2000, in Windows XP,
and in Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/285089

I set the value to 21 and restarted the computer. Once I did that I was able
to gain access to the external HD. If that doesn't work, try raising the
value in steps of 3 (24, 27, 30, etc.) to see if one of those numbers work.
Keep in mind that you have to restart the computer each time you change the
value.

If that doesn't help, you might want to post your question to the
microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web newsgroup if you haven't done so
already.

On a side note, I also found that after shutting down the external hard
drive I would on occasion have to redo the settings on the Sharing tab.

Good luck

Nepatsfan
 
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