"The specified network name is no longer available" from just one machine, one partition

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Robert L Wilson

I have a home network, five systems running W2000 Pro. Things work great...
mostly. But there is one partition on one machine that (a) is perfectly
visible on all but one of the other machines, but (b) on one other machine
trying to see files in that partition gives "The specified network name is
no longer available". Even on that machine I can ask for properties of it,
it does show up as something I should be able to look at, I just get this
error message whenever I try to see anything in it. From that machine I have
perfect access to all of the other partitions on the target machine.
Searching I find all sorts of questions about this error message. The
responses all refer to things like a bad network interface. But clearly all
the networking components are the same for this one client trying to look at
each of the partitions on that one target, all but one of which work
perfectly.
I tried making a new sharable name for the partition on the machine it lives
on, despite the fact that the one it already had worked fine for access from
all but one other machine. No help.
I would appreciate any clues as to where to look next! I have been working
on this for months now.
Thanks,
Bob Wilson
 
Hi,
You wouldn't have maximum permissions set to 1 or something
silly like that?
It almost has to be a permissions thing if all other PCs can access
this one partition but this one PC can't.
Have you logged onto this PC that is trying to access the shared
partition with the administrator account using the same password? Just
to rule out this permission issue.

Cheers,
Jim
 
Hi Jim

Thanks for answering.

Hi,
You wouldn't have maximum permissions set to 1 or something
silly like that?
Click to expand...
where is that?
It almost has to be a permissions thing if all other PCs can access
this one partition but this one PC can't.
Click to expand...
Well it's two Win XP Home machines which cannot access each other nor
can they be accessed from another machine.
Have you logged onto this PC that is trying to access the shared
partition with the administrator account using the same password? Just
to rule out this permission issue.
Click to expand...
no. Why do I have to?
On Win XP Prof 64 administrator account is called different than on the
Win XP Home - Boxes ("owner").

Any other idea?

David
 
David,

David Geissler said:
Hi Jim

Thanks for answering.


where is that?

Well it's two Win XP Home machines which cannot access each other nor can
they be accessed from another machine.

no. Why do I have to?
On Win XP Prof 64 administrator account is called different than on the
Win XP Home - Boxes ("owner").
Click to expand...

XP Home has an administrator account called "Administrator"!
 
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