Cant Access Shares....

[Richie]

I have 2 PC's connected thru am ISDN router which has a built in 4 port switch.

I had these PC's all setup fine. All mapped drives worked and data could be transferred between each one great and I had no problems until now.


I have changed nothing but 1 PC cannot "find" the other PC.... Examples using PC A and PC B -


PC A -

Can connect to all mapped drives of PC B
Can display local shares and PC B's shares in "My Network Places"
Can display PC A and PC B computers within "View Workgroup computers"
Can do everything fine



PC B -

CANNOT connect to any mapped drives of PC A
Can display local shares fine but NOT PC A's shares in "My Network Places"
CANNOT display PC A and PC B computers within "View Workgroup computers"



Both PC's are on same workgroup
All firewalls disabled - same effects
Both PC's on Windows XP Pro


The funny thing is I can do a remote desktop connection from PC B to PC A and access everything fine there so I know the physical cable is fine as is the setup on both PC's



I have tried removing all shares, changing workgroups and PC names but still nothing



Anyone got any ideas ??

[Jiff Lemon]

Can PC B ping PC A?

If both machines are on static IP's, can you access shares via IP?

eg. \\192.168.0.2

[Richie]

S'ok, some trumpet turned off "Client for Microsoft Networks" on this machine...... Oh yeah, that would be me then


All working fine now

[kaillum]

deff one of those "Doh " moments..

[Zathras]

I've found it often helps to move terminal services down the order list in advanced network properties. Before that shares would take a while to open/find - now it's pretty much instantaneous.

[directhex]

also, remember to check "authenticate as guest" in the "athentication" tab for a connection, can help problems frequently

--jo