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Please help... super annoying problem

post #1 of 16
5/17/05 at 2:25am
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I can not get the contents of one of my shared folders to appear when ever accessed over the network. I am not using simple filesharing on either of the two computers: client or host. I have tried changing the permissions but purhaps I am not applying the right setting though I've been able to get just about everyother file on the network to appear correctly. Ideas?

Edit: Also I cannot seem to remove the read only status of this particular folder either.
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post #2 of 16
5/18/05 at 12:25am
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Anyone? I know this isn't directly involving my laptop but I'm still in need of advice.
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post #3 of 16
5/18/05 at 12:39am
Turn on simple file sharing check box on both PC's and make sure both guest accounts are enabled on each PC. Then on each PC remove the shares and restart them . Then reenable the shares. See what that does for ya first.
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post #4 of 16
5/20/05 at 1:29am
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What role do guest accounts play?
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post #5 of 16
5/20/05 at 2:16am
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Fixed my problem!

I tried Mobile_Hackbox's suggestion but still had no luck so I simply went to the host computer created a new folder within the folder that I could not view the contents of on the client system, moved the files to the new folder, then put everything back to the original layout and everything worked as it should! I think I found a bug in Windows (not hard to do)! Bug has something to do with the way a shared folder's contents are managed in particular situations (probably rare). Anyway, thanks for the help.
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post #6 of 16
5/20/05 at 10:43pm
Probably an inherited pemission getting in the way, or something. Windows networking uses deny first, accumilated permissions from the network sharing permissions, and file permissions, and also group and user permissions. If the files only had administrator read permission, but everyone share permission, anyone on the network that isn't in the administrator's group would not be able to open the files. Or even worse, if a deny permission was checked for the group or user trying to access the files, it wouldn't matter what other permissions the user had.
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post #7 of 16
5/29/05 at 2:57pm
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I've checked for deny permission; the problem probably is coming from an inherited permission. Still very annoying and simple file sharing does not seem to fix the problem.
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post #8 of 16
5/29/05 at 4:31pm
Security could be what is holding you up - bet you have looked into that but...
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post #9 of 16
5/30/05 at 4:55pm
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Could you be a little more specific to what you mean by "security"?
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post #10 of 16
5/30/05 at 5:04pm
What operating systems are we talking about? Are both machines utilizing the same OS? You've really provided very little information about this setup.
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post #11 of 16
5/31/05 at 2:03am
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Windoze XP pro on each system.
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post #12 of 16
5/31/05 at 9:30am
User accounts must match on both computers, including the passwords. If the accounts don't have passwords and you don't want to assign passwords, you have to disable the group policy that restricts account logons with blank passwords to console.
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post #13 of 16
6/1/05 at 11:10am
May be a dumb comment, but the location of the share matters too. On my home network I can't share files under the my documents folder or in the root of c: Just a suggestion, try moving the shared folder and see if that helps.
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post #14 of 16
6/1/05 at 12:41pm
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Originally Posted by pcons
May be a dumb comment, but the location of the share matters too. On my home network I can't share files under the my documents folder or in the root of c: Just a suggestion, try moving the shared folder and see if that helps.
You technically can, the reason it doesn't work for you is because of the inherited permissions as mentioned above. Users have the ability to make their "My Documents" folders private, which will set permissions so that only that particular user can access that particular folder. Any folders created within will inherit those settings.

Also, on Windows XP Pro, you may have set all your share permissions correctly, but if the NTFS permissions are more restrictive in any way, they will take precedence over the share permissions.
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post #15 of 16
6/1/05 at 4:12pm
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I have throughly checked everything you have suggested. I the only point of confusion I have involves the following:

"...you have to disable the group policy that restricts account logons with blank passwords to console."

Can you please explain more?
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post #16 of 16
6/1/05 at 6:12pm
I could if I had access to an XP machine at the moment, which I don't. Start->Run->gpedit.msc should get you headed in the right direction.
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