Having a weird problem with a small network setup, hoping someone might know a solution.
Basically the office is running a small 3 machine peer to peer network routed through a Linksys router. All office files are kept on the reception machine (C:\Data) running Windows XP Home edition and are shared across the network using XP Home's built in simple file sharing.
Each of the two other office machines (one running XP Home, the other XP Pro) are able to browse all files and directories in the shared folder. They are also able to create new files and directories. They are able to open all files that were created before the file sharing was enabled. Here's the weird part though, neither of the machine in the back are able to open any files created by the reception machine out front since file sharing was allowed. Even files they created which are then opened on the reception machine are no longer accessible. They still can see them, just get access denied when trying to open/copy them.
Any ideas? If file sharing is disabled and then re-enabled on the reception machine then all files are again available to the two machines in the back, however again any new files created by the reception machine from that point on are not accessible.
All machine are on the same workgroup, have the same network settings. Thanks in advance for any help.
Basically the office is running a small 3 machine peer to peer network routed through a Linksys router. All office files are kept on the reception machine (C:\Data) running Windows XP Home edition and are shared across the network using XP Home's built in simple file sharing.
Each of the two other office machines (one running XP Home, the other XP Pro) are able to browse all files and directories in the shared folder. They are also able to create new files and directories. They are able to open all files that were created before the file sharing was enabled. Here's the weird part though, neither of the machine in the back are able to open any files created by the reception machine out front since file sharing was allowed. Even files they created which are then opened on the reception machine are no longer accessible. They still can see them, just get access denied when trying to open/copy them.
Any ideas? If file sharing is disabled and then re-enabled on the reception machine then all files are again available to the two machines in the back, however again any new files created by the reception machine from that point on are not accessible.
All machine are on the same workgroup, have the same network settings. Thanks in advance for any help.
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