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I have an applcation which resides in program files and a
database which is off the main drive (c) as too are the
other dir's that are used.
The 2 computers are on a peer-to-peer network with xp pro.
When I try to start the applcation from the 'client' it
fails as it cannot acces the database tables.

I wrote the application and it is fully networkable and
has worked fine upto XP.

I have already:
1) disabled both firewalls
2) diabled simple file sharing
3) shared with full rights all relevant dir's and set
permissions to full
4) logged on with full admin rights
5) set security level -everyone- to have full rights
6) enabled remote access on both computers

The applcation still fails.Please advise.
 
What do you get if using net view \\hostname from client?

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Howard said:
I have an applcation which resides in program files and a
database which is off the main drive (c) as too are the
other dir's that are used.
The 2 computers are on a peer-to-peer network with xp pro.
When I try to start the applcation from the 'client' it
fails as it cannot acces the database tables.

I wrote the application and it is fully networkable and
has worked fine upto XP.

I have already:
1) disabled both firewalls
2) diabled simple file sharing
3) shared with full rights all relevant dir's and set
permissions to full
4) logged on with full admin rights
5) set security level -everyone- to have full rights
6) enabled remote access on both computers

The applcation still fails.Please advise.
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Was simple file sharing used initially?
If so, it has probably set the NTFS permissions on the folder to exclude
guest access.
Simple File Sharing does this by default, if you attempt to share a whole
drive.
It grumps at you that sharing a whole drive is bad, and if you continue, it
grinds for a moment or two and sets NTFS permissiosn on certain folders.

After disabling Simple File Sharing,
the permissions you set were probably the network share permissions.
But the client needs both Share AND NTFS permissions.

Disabling simple file sharing after the event will not un-do the NTFS
permissions which were set when the Simple File Sharing wizard did it's
thing.

Use windows explorer to navigte to the folders you can't access, and check
the 'security' tab.
Add everybody group back to the NTFS permissions with read and write acess
too.

Once it's working, fine-tune the permissions as required.
 
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