USB Harddrive Use problem

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Russ Johnson

We have a client who is using a small local network for
work at home. The main machine is an XP Pro machine. The
client wanted to use a TEAC USB harddrive for portability
between his home office and work office. We set the unit
up on Windows 98 initially and it was accessible from all
units including the XP Pro machine. We changed the
location to the faster machine and the drive gave us an
unusual response. When trying to access it via the
network from ANY of the machines it mentions that it is
not accesssible and that we need to contact the
administrator because we might not have rights. It also
says, "Not enough memory avaible. Quit some programs"
(Win 98) or "Not Enough Server Storage Available to
process this command" (Windows XP Pro). The USB drive has
been FULLY SHARED WITH RIGHTS TO CHANGE. We have fdisked
the drive, reformated and reloaded the drive to make
certain that ONLY data and no programs are being
implemented on accessing the drive. At times it almost
appears that the TEAC USB harddrive is being viewed by
WIndows XP as a CD-R/ CD-DVD or CD-RW because it wants to
sometimes give choices about what to do with the media
that it finds on the drive. We have removed the device
drivers, USB controller, USB hubs and let them reinstall
with the same results. All the fixed drives on the 98
and XP machine access with no problems. Only the USB
drive has the problem. We are using an MSI K7N2 Delta
motherboard with RADI and using the Nvidia nForce2 Ultra
400 chipset with Athalon 2400+ processor. Any
suggestions of how to get the drive to be accessible from
the XP machine? Seems rediculous to use the slower
machines to access the drive when the faster machine is
supposed to be the file "server" for his network.
 
Never mind. We found an error message and a registry key
to change that fixed the problem. Thanks
 
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