networking and file sharing in WindowsXP

[SWScorch]

I have a four computer network in my house, with two of the computers running WindowsXP and two running Windows 98 SE. All are connected through a router to a cable modem and to each other. They all have file and print sharing enabled, and they can all see each other over the network. However, I have trouble accessing certain sections of the other WinXP machine's hard disk on each computer running XP. For example, if I'm on this computer, and want to access my server, also running XP, there are some folders I cannot have access to. Like the Windows folder, Administrator's Docs and Setting,s etc etc. I recieve this error.. I log in as Administrator on both machines. I want every single file and folder on both of these machines to be completely open to sharing over the network. Is this even possible, and if so, how do I do it? I really dislike XP's networking stuff as its so different from 98 and so much stricter... ANy help would be appreciated. thanks.

 

[MrChad]

Are the administrator passwords different on both machines? Try connecting to an admin share on the \\Mercury machine.

\\Mercury\c$

(drive letter)$ is a special admin shares in NT/2000/XP that gives admins full access to the files on another PC. If your admin passwords are different on both boxes, you should be prompted to enter a valid username and password. Use

USER: mercury/administrator
PASSWORD: <mercury admin password>

Good luck.

 

[SWScorch]

the admin passwords are the same, since I'm too absent-minded to remember multiple passwords.

If it helps, on Mercury (my server), the account is Administrator, with the password. On Mjolnir (this machine) the account is Matt, with password, but is an administrator account. I don't know if that makes any difference. When I installed XP on my server, it asked me for a password for an admin account. On Mjolnir, it never asked for anything like that, and someone told me to make an admin account, which I did in the form of "Matt"...

And I tried connecting to \\Mercury\c$, and it prompted me for a password, but neither the admin password nor the password to gain access to the hard drives worked.... hmmm

And in looking through Windows help, it says that "Sharing is not enabled in system folders, such as documents and settings, or prgram files." Well, what if I want to share them? Grrrr @ Windows.