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Old 06-06-2008   #2 (permalink)
Robert L. \(MS-MVP\)


 
 

Re: Can't Access Win 2000 Share from a vista computer.

Do you receive system error if using this command: net view
\\problematicw2000ipaddress from the Vista?

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"Jim Bryan" <JimBryan@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:

> We have 3 W2k computers and a new vista computer. The Vista computer
> cannot
> access the shares on ONE of the Windows 2000 computers. The network is
> peer
> to peer and with the exception of the Vista computer accessing this
> particular Win 2000 computer, everyone can access everything. (we are
> trying
> to share a printer on the Win 2000 computer, but the computer rejects the
> user name/password from vista computer).
>
> I have triple checked the permissions and when you try to access the
> share,
> you get a user name/password error. You can access the same share from
> one
> of the other win 2000 computers using the same user info and it works
> fine.
>
> All Win 2000 machines are SP3, we had some issues on one computer with SP4
> and never installed it on any of our computers. Is there an update or a
> setting on the Win 2000 computer that would only effect the vista computer
> accessing the 2000 shares?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
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