Network Issues

Just built a new desktop and connected it to my network. My whole mp3
collection is on my laptop. When I make my "music" folder shared on the
network, it appears to work just fine. The odd part, is that some of
the folders appear as empty when i look through them on my desktop. They
are right there though, on the laptop.

All of the files are the same mp3 format that I made myself. From the
desktop, certain band folders, say U2, are empty w/0 bytes.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Both OS's XP Pro SP2. I have all the music in one folder that contains
lots of subfolders. I shared (full access) the parent folder. All of the
subfolders show, just not all of the mp3's within.

I have tried to disable all firewalls, but no effect.

Thx

jlab13 wrote:
> Just built a new desktop and connected it to my network. My whole mp3
> collection is on my laptop. When I make my "music" folder shared on
> the network, it appears to work just fine. The odd part, is that
> some of the folders appear as empty when i look through them on my
> desktop. They are right there though, on the laptop.
>
> All of the files are the same mp3 format that I made myself. From
> the desktop, certain band folders, say U2, are empty w/0 bytes.
>
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Both OS's XP Pro SP2. I have all the music in one folder that contains
> lots of subfolders. I shared (full access) the parent folder. All of
> the subfolders show, just not all of the mp3's within.
>
> I have tried to disable all firewalls, but no effect.
>
> Thx

It *might* be the sharing. Select the main folder, right-click
properties, sharing tab, check the box relating to all subfolders.
OTOH, it might also be that the destination computer is needing time to
cache the file structure.

Q