So I've been fiddling around with Advanced File Sharing on one of the computers round here.
I've gotten it to work pretty easily in that it lets me control who accesses what and who has what control. Now I'm looking to use it throughout my whole network soonish but before i do go ahead I want to get one thing working...
As the web tells you, when using advanced file sharing, if the username and password of the computer you are using to access dont match those that are set up on the 'server' then it should prompt you for a username and password. The problem for me is that whenever the user credentials dont match i just get a
\\computer\folder 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.
Access is denied
I've googled a bit for info, and looked through all the links on ezlan.net but have yet to find anything that helps.
NTFS permissions are all set to allow access (well i think they are anyway), firewalls are down, sharing permissions are set how i want them but i also want for someone to be able to plug a new computer into the network temporarily, and be able to access files without setting up a new account and without me setting up an account for them on the 'server' xp computer.
So I'm currently out of ideas and any help would be appreciated. I'm sure other people have had problems like this before and I would like to know how they solved them.
Thanks
I've gotten it to work pretty easily in that it lets me control who accesses what and who has what control. Now I'm looking to use it throughout my whole network soonish but before i do go ahead I want to get one thing working...
As the web tells you, when using advanced file sharing, if the username and password of the computer you are using to access dont match those that are set up on the 'server' then it should prompt you for a username and password. The problem for me is that whenever the user credentials dont match i just get a
\\computer\folder 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.
Access is denied
I've googled a bit for info, and looked through all the links on ezlan.net but have yet to find anything that helps.
NTFS permissions are all set to allow access (well i think they are anyway), firewalls are down, sharing permissions are set how i want them but i also want for someone to be able to plug a new computer into the network temporarily, and be able to access files without setting up a new account and without me setting up an account for them on the 'server' xp computer.
So I'm currently out of ideas and any help would be appreciated. I'm sure other people have had problems like this before and I would like to know how they solved them.
Thanks