Re: Access to other drives in the Workgroup

From: Bob McCoy [MSFT] (bobmccoy_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:18:06 -0600

Are you using the same account name and password on both systems? 

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"cgyn" <cgyn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:2C29DA2B-80D1-4C85-AFF1-17CC48D6234E@microsoft.com...
> Oops, my bad!  the Desktop is WInXP Pro; and the Laptop is WinXP Home.   I
> don't recall setting any security permissions...how do I do that?  tks,
>
> mike
>
> "andy smart" wrote:
>
>> cgyn wrote:
>> > I have one 'wired' computer (my desktop) and one 'wireless' computer 
>> > (my
>> > laptop) all connected together thru a linksys router/access point. 
>> > I've made
>> > both computer's "My Docs" shareable... but when I go to the workgroup 
>> > the
>> > only thing I have 'access' to is the shared folders.  When I try to 
>> > access
>> > "my docs" on the other computer, I get and Access Denied error.  I know 
>> > I'm
>> > missing something...just don't know what it is.  Thanks in advance for 
>> > your
>> > help.
>> >
>> > mike
>> What OS are you using?
>> Besides sharing it, have you set the security permissions to allow
>> access. Sharing permissions mean that you get to 'try the door' but
>> security permissions would give you the key :-)
>>

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