Weird File Sharing Problem

[bob4432]

i have 4 machines on my home lan and i share a couple of different folders on my "server" machine so that i can do backup from my machine, wife's machine, etc to it. now for some reason, i can not log into some of the shared folders on the server from my machine, even though they have the same permissions of the ones i can get into from my machine. any ideas as to why this is? server machine is win2kpro, my machine is xppro and wife's is win2kpro.

 

[bob4432]

anybody?

 

[Hyperblaze]

does everyone have the same user accounts on all the computers?

edit: and passwords too?

 

[bob4432]

yes, i and i even turned on the guest acct. the folder has priviledges for guest/each user and everyone

 

[bob4432]

any other ideas?

 

[phatrabt]

Do you or your wife have a blank password? I know that Windows won't let you access a share if the account you're logged in to uses a blank password (even if you use the account info of an account on the machine). Hope this helps narrow it down.

phatrabt

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: phatrabt
Do you or your wife have a blank password? I know that Windows won't let you access a share if the account you're logged in to uses a blank password (even if you use the account info of an account on the machine). Hope this helps narrow it down.

phatrabt

no, all have correct passwords.... what i don't understand is that other folders on the same machine are shared fine, and i just duplicated the setting for these new shares, wtf...