Some shared folders not accessible

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I have a home network with 3 PC's running XP Home SP2 and a Linksys Router. I
had to replace the mother board in one of the computers and since then some
.... not all ... shared directories are not accessible from the other 2
computers. If I attempt to open some of the folders I get an error message
that says

"You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the
administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.

Access is denied."

If I check the offending folders on the computer where they live, the folder
properties show them as being Shared. Also the other computers are completely
accessible so it looks like a one way problem.

Does anyone here had a similar problem and found a fix? I've tried unsharing
and resharing with no success.

Gerrywide
 
Are you setting permissions on the network share itself? Windows keeps an
additional set of permissions when a folder is shared, besides the
permissions directly assigned to the folder. You set them from a button on
the tab where you create the share.

The default in Windows XP is to give "Everyone" read-only access to the
network share, regardless of the explicit permssions on the folder. (This is
a change from Windows 2000, which--I think--defaulted to write access for
"Everyone".)
 
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