Home Network? thought I could handle this...

[redcaes]

But I guess I was wrong and i really hope someone here can give me an answer...

Here it goes I built a home network with a d link 604 router.
2 Xp Pro Machines & 1 win 2000 pro. All Have 512 ram or more,
and from the p4 I can access all shared folder that I need( The ones on the win 2000 are irrelevant.)on the AMD but no such luck vice versa? from the amd i can access printer that is connected to P4 and I can see that the P4 is connected to the network but it tells me i dont have right to access. again the other way from p4 to AMD no problem! I have played with the router settings, win services admin services , user accounts I have basically left my system wide open for connections from anyone and still i cant log on to my p4 from the amd. WHAT AM I MISSING?


If anyone has a clue im ready to try anything.
Thanks for the help in advance

[HeadBand]

have you ran the file and printer sharing wizard on the P4?

[stroyal]

Try setting user names and passwords the same.

[redcaes]

yes I tried the home network wizard I tried reinstalling the fil and printer sharing thing in my network properties. for user names don't see why it should affect it but ill give it a shot...

[redcaes]

no luck

[redcaes]

i just had a look at some other posts and saw something about acl's and tried that too no luck again this is driving me crazy how can everything be fine 1 way i mean totally fine 1 way and then the other just a printer... why even bother why not just give me no access at all at least that might make some sense.. but man..

[John Prophet]

are you SURE the firewalls are off?? the wizards will turn the firewall on again...make sure they r off...at least till you get it working

[redcaes]

yup all firewalls off including the router for testing

[stroyal]

I was thinking passwords more than user names.

[MitaDC]

make sure that your windows firewall is off! I have had the same problem.... all it was was the windows firewall was turned on. Try that.. if in your network connections it shows a lock in the connection picture that means that the windows firewall is on. GL

BTW I know u already said firewalls were off but I had this exact same thing happen and that was the culprit.

[redcaes]

yeah i had that in the past too and it was 1 of the first things I checked I althogh i have had it working on and off it isn't on for the purposes of these tests. like i said my pc is wide open right now . i also have pc anywhere installed and can acess both pc's that way but is a pain in the butt and doesn't fix my real problem.... which im sure is related to access rights somehow.

My true intention is to get this stupid eazyshare program working for my all in wonder card and it is supposed to feed live tv to all others on the network. and when i work in the ATI prperties its giving me same result as windows (SERVER sees Client) (Client can't Find Server)

[redcaes]

or doesnt have access to server

[redcaes]

with ati it cant find the eazyshare server .....in windows i can see my p4 on the network and i can access printer but not pc itself

[redcaes]

Ok after a full night of tinkering. This is what I have done again and doublechecked.
No Firewalls on. Have rotated pc's into the "DMZ" 1 by 1, checked my administrateve services for group and access permissions, changed user names and passwords, shared all my folders rebooted all modems reinstalled protocols,basically i have done everything except reinstall the p4(which I really dont want to do just for this)

Ive narrowwed it down to either

A- A missing registry key somehwhere (wouldnt know where to start)
B- The Permissions aren't being set Right (cant see why)
or
C- the default port windows uses to access a server on the network is blocked

in which case I'm pretty much baffled by all 3 any help would really be appreciated I thank you guys for trying so far
hopefully someone will be able to come up with a solution
( maybe DVNT1 )

Thanks again Guys
Redcaes

[redcaes]

ok now i know its a file permision thing as when i connect it actually comes up with a user name and paswword prompt, but ive played with all these settings and still no luck..


HELP!

[herura]

Try the command line. (from the client machine) That will give you more detailed error messages. Also you can give it modifers that you use if your network settings are not correct. The command for connection to drives is:

net use * \\servername\sharename
Where * is a drive letter ( you can use the * and it will just pick the next free one)

Try to ping the server, both by IP and by name.
If you can ping by IP, but not by name then your NetBIOS settings are incorrect.

You can also try:
net use * \\servername\sharename /user:username password
Where username is on the server, not the local machine

If that does not work try:
net view \\servername
You can get help on the net commands by typing:
net /help or net use /help.

If your network settings are incorrect you will get an error. Next try:
nbtstat -a \\servername

That will give you info about your network settings. Google for more info on nbstat and how to understand the results

Make sure that the workgroup names are correct for all machines on your network, check that the user ID's and ACL's are set correctly. To test this relax all security settings by letting everyone read files on your server. Make sure your passwords are correct. Reset them to make sure.

Good Luck

[dustyrun]

some times if you turn the guest account on , then correctly share the folders, it will work..

dustyrun