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General Category => Software => Topic started by: Neil on April 12, 2004, 04:05:07 AM

Title: Can see a machine in WorkGroup, but can't open it
Post by: Neil on April 12, 2004, 04:05:07 AM

I have three machines at hope in a workgroup (call them A, B & C). If I view the workgroup every machine can see every other machine in it.

Additionally you can then click on a machine and browse it's shared drives. HOWEVER, this is not he case on one of them. When you double click it from the other two machines you get:-

****** is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Blah blah blah... Access denied.


However, if I type in it's address directly eg: "\\machinename\C" I can then freely browser it's shared drive(s).

I've disabled the firewall (Zone Alarm) so eliminated that... Any idea what else I can look at.

The machine in question is running XP Pro, with the other two running XP Pro and XP home...

It's really doing my head in!

Title: Can see a machine in WorkGroup, but can't open it
Post by: Guest on April 13, 2004, 01:38:30 PM

on the machine in question, check the Local Area Network setting, on the Advanced tab there is a checkbox which enable or disables windows XP's internal firewall.  if it's checked, uncheck it.  that might help, it sometimes will cause problems like that

Title: Can see a machine in WorkGroup, but can't open it
Post by: Guest on April 14, 2004, 01:54:42 AM

[quote name=\'Guest\' date=\'Apr 13 2004, 12:38 PM\']on the machine in question, check the Local Area Network setting, on the Advanced tab there is a checkbox which enable or disables windows XP's internal firewall.  if it's checked, uncheck it.  that might help, it sometimes will cause problems like that[/quote]
 That's rather interesting. On the machine in question, if I go to the local area network and into the advanced tab, the firewall tickbox is unamendable.

On my other XP Pro box it IS amendable.

Title: Can see a machine in WorkGroup, but can't open it
Post by: Neil on April 14, 2004, 01:59:52 AM

Mind you, saying that, the machine having a problem is on the Internet, and the one that is not having a problem gets it's internet access from the other.

So I can sort of see what those options would be like that.

ie: It doesn't make sense for the machine having the problem to have the firewall option on the LAN tab. The other machine gets its internet access over the LAN, so I can see why it does have that option available.