Mounting Drive from XP on 2000

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I have a small home network set up with 2 computers. One is running XP
Pro and the other is running 2000. The machines are connected via a
wireless gateway and router and appear to be able to see each other
fine.
From the XP system I can mount drives on the 2000 system and read/write
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them with no problems but I have not been able to figure out how to
mount a drive from the XP system on the 2000 system. I've tried
everything I can think of and searching the web has not been helpful.

I can ping either machine from the other so the connections are good
and everything is fine from the XP side as far as mounting network
drives goes.

Can anyone tell me how to mount one of the drives in the XP system on
my Windows 2000 system?

Thanks,


Don
 
Don said:
I have a small home network set up with 2 computers. One is running XP
Pro and the other is running 2000. The machines are connected via a
wireless gateway and router and appear to be able to see each other
fine.

them with no problems but I have not been able to figure out how to
mount a drive from the XP system on the 2000 system. I've tried
everything I can think of and searching the web has not been helpful.

I can ping either machine from the other so the connections are good
and everything is fine from the XP side as far as mounting network
drives goes.

Can anyone tell me how to mount one of the drives in the XP system on
my Windows 2000 system?

Thanks,


Don
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It's the same in both systems: Explorer / Tools / map network drive.
 
When I try that the system always says it can't find the target system.
Is there some special syntax for this? I've tried all sort of
variations on "\\XP_system\c$" with no luck. Sometimes it says that
the username/password I've specified does not exist on the target
system but it does.

BTW, the XP firewall is disabled.
 
Don said:
When I try that the system always says it can't find the target system.
Is there some special syntax for this? I've tried all sort of
variations on "\\XP_system\c$" with no luck. Sometimes it says that
the username/password I've specified does not exist on the target
system but it does.

BTW, the XP firewall is disabled.
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- It is preferable to create shares on the target machine instead
of relying on the default shares C$, D$ etc.
- You must disable "Simple File Sharing" (My Computer / Tools /
Folder Options / View, close to the bottom of the list). See
also here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=307874#3
 
Thank you VERY much! I've been fooling around with this for quite a
while. Turning off the simple file sharing did the trick.
 
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