Sharing a floppy drive over the network.

[Guest]

I have a new computer with no floppy drive (computer A) that I need to
install some very specific work related software on. My intention was to
share my floppy drive (computer B) over the network and install the software
that way. Both computers are on the same domain and I did share the A drive
on computer B with, I think, the correct permissions. However, I can not
browse or attach to the computer B from A over the network. I get the
“\\computer name is not accessible.†I know I have done this before but for
the life of me can’t remember what I am missing.

Any ideas or suggestions are appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

Frank

 

[Guest]

I forgot to say that both computers are XP Pro. SP2.

Thanks again.

 

[3c273]

What you are trying should work. I've never tried with a floppy but I have
with a cd. That said, if you don't get this sorted out, you could always
create an image of the floppy with Floppy Image, available here
http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/floppyimage.html , then mount it with
Virtual Floppy Drive available here
http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html#top
Louis

 

[Kurt]

Sounds like a name resolution problem. First see if you can ping computer A
from B using the IP Address rather than the computer name . If your XP
firewall is enabled on either machine, you'll either have to turn it off
temporarily or configure it to reply to ICMP echo requests. If you can ping,
instead of using the computer name, from the run command dialog type
\\ip-address. That should open a window with the shares on the computer with
that IP address. If your permissions are ok, you should be able to either
copy the files, or run them directly from the share.

....kurt

 

[Guest]

Check/turn off your firewalls which may be preventing the access