Re: File Sharing XP Pro and WIN98SE
- From: "Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 13:29:56 -0600
It is up to you but personally I thing it is not wise to use Windows 98 as a
file server. You really should look into using XP Pro or Windows 2003
Server, maybe even as a domain controller depending on the size of your
network. Then each user can have a user account and logon to their computer
with a password. You would then create the same user logon/password on the
file server and configure share/NTFS folder permissions to manage access to
the folders. Then the users could access their folders without any password
prompt and be denied access to folders where they do not have permissions.
The NTFS file system that XP Pro can use is much more robust then the FAT32
file system used by Windows 98.
As far as your exact problem in the current environment I don't really know
and Windows 98 is pretty ancient technology these days. You might try
posting in a Windows 98 newsgroup also. Simple file sharing only changes the
way users access shares on an XP Pro computer and would not have any bearing
on your particular problem. Windows 98 also lacks a lot of the logging and
other troubleshooting tools that you would normally be able to use in XP Pro
such as folder auditing. You could try removing SP2 on a workstation of
yours to see if that solves your problem if you believe it may be SP2
related. SP2 beefed up RPC security quite a bit which could be causing what
you are seeing. --- Steve
"HenryWolf" <HenryWolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:D5FEE029-E77C-4F94-97F5-C6F8AC285E5F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> We are using WIN XP Pro SP2 on all our work stations. However, because of
> the
> much simpler file sharing in WIN 98SE, we continue using a single WIN 98SE
> workstation on the network as our "document server".
>
> Each network user has a folder (some with one or more sub-folders) on the
> "document server". This main (highest-level) folder is "shared" in WIN
> 98SE
> and protected by a password.
>
> Here is the problem:
> We can gain access to the individual folders and sub-folders and open
> files
> (say, WORD documents) after entering the appropriate password for the main
> folder, and can also re-save the files as long as the file name remains
> the
> same.
>
> If we open a document and try saving a modified version of the file under
> a
> different name (with the Save As function), an error message appears "The
> folder .... isn't accessible. The folder may be located on an unavailable
> volume or protected with a password."
>
> There is no difference whether "Simple File Sharing" is turned ON or OFF.
>
> It appears (but I am not 100% certain) that these problems began after
> updating to SP2.
.
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