Problem accessing computers on home LAN.

[shortylickens]

Already asked this in the Networking section of the forums a while ago, got some good tips but no real solutions.

Have a home LAN with a nice little Netgear WIFI router. Am not using the Wireless features at all. Just the 4 wired ports.
Using the router to share my web connection from QWEST DSL. Both my gaming and work comuters can get to the internet just fine.

The office computer can see the game system and read its drives under My Network Places. I am NOT using simple file sharing on either system.

The gaming machine can see the work computer on the LAN but cant access it or read any of the shared files.
Every time I try to double click on the office computer I get the error message:
"\\Office is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.
The network path was not found."

Both computers are on the "SHORTY" workgroup. As far as I can tell I have equal permissions on both computers for the shared drives. I cant figure out why one can access the others shares and not vise-versa.
Both systems have XP Pro with SP2. One is OEM the other is retail.
Both systems have been assigned IP's rather than random or Auto. It helps keep my router from being confused.

I read all the FAQ's and Read Me First articles in the Network forum.
Have brought down and set up my home network several times with the exact same results. I dont think this is a communications error because both systems have web connections and one can read and write to the other.

I think it must be a Windows setting somewhere but I cant figure it out.

 

[shortylickens]

Bueller?
Bueller?
Anybody?
Bueller?

I know this may seem like a problem for the Networking regulars but they werent able to figure it out either.

 

[LOFBenson]

I would guess it has to do with a misconfiguration in your User Rights Assignments on your office computer. You can find these under local security settings in administrative tools in your control panel. Compare the values on your office computer with the values on your gaming system.

If you can't find anything there then move to the Audit Policy tab in the same window and turn on success and failure auditing for everything. Try and connect again so that your gaming system gets the error then browse the security event log on your office system and find the exact error.

 

[TG2]

Do you have the same exact usernames and passwords on each machine?

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: TG2
Do you have the same exact usernames and passwords on each machine?

Nope.

And I tried the other stuff but couldnt get it to work. It keeps saying I lack user rights but on both computers I gave "everyone" full access. Again it seems strange that both systems have the same settings but only one can access the other.

I think for right now I will juds be content that both can web browse and maybe go back and set up the network from scratch when I feel like dealing with it.

 

[skrewler2]

try start/run/ \\office\c$ login with Administrator and pass. if that doesn't work, check out your local security settings and policy under Administrative Tools somewhere. if it does work, it means your permissions or "advanced security settings" (called something like that in Windows, under file sharing tab) are wrong