Networking Problem

I have 2 machines, connected thru a router, one wireless, the other wired.
The wireless machine sees the wired machine, sees the shareed drive, & the
folders.
As soon as I try to copy the folder to the wireless machine from the wired
machine I get an accss denied error see administrator.

Both machines have the same username & password established, The folder
that I want to copy is a sub folder of the documents & settings folder for my
username.

I have bought a new machine & I want to copy the folder & other folders to
the new machine in a different location so that I can reinstall things as I
wish.

I have never had as much trouble networking machines as I have with XP. I
have never, ever had issues like this with any other OS. W2K & others
networked flawlessly.

This is usually caused by a misconfigured firewall. I would suggest that you
run the Network Setup Wizard on both computers, making sure to enable File &
Printer Sharing, and reboot. The only "gotcha" is that this will turn on the
XP's SP2 Windows Firewall. If you aren't running a third-party firewall or
have an antivirus with "Internet Worm Protection" (like Symantec or Norton
2005/06/07) which acts as a firewall, then you'll be fine. If you however
have third-party firewall software, you'll need to configure it to allow the
Local Area Network traffic as trusted. I usually suggest that you do this
with your firewall with an IP range. Ex. would be 192.168.1.0-192.168.1.254.
Obviously you would substitute your correct subnet.

http://www.ezlan.net/sharing.html

http://www.ezlan.net/Installing.html


How to set up a home network:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...p/homenet.mspx


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"Starbuck" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:6F5CCB58-FC6C-4641-B36F-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I have 2 machines, connected thru a router, one wireless, the other wired.
> The wireless machine sees the wired machine, sees the shareed drive, & the
> folders.
> As soon as I try to copy the folder to the wireless machine from the wired
> machine I get an accss denied error see administrator.
>
> Both machines have the same username & password established, The folder
> that I want to copy is a sub folder of the documents & settings folder for
> my
> username.
>
> I have bought a new machine & I want to copy the folder & other folders to
> the new machine in a different location so that I can reinstall things as
> I
> wish.
>
> I have never had as much trouble networking machines as I have with XP. I
> have never, ever had issues like this with any other OS. W2K & others
> networked flawlessly.

Well, I am unclear how the firewall stops any of this. If I can see & open
other folders on the remote drive across the network, how is it stopping me
from opening just a few specific folders? The root folder on both machines
is shared, so all folders below should automatically be shared shouldn't
they? Saying the firewall is stopping this, well.....

That doesn't make sense. I have turned off firewalls on both the machines,
same username & password on both, still no luck. It seems that Microsoft is
oging to forece all all to go back to USB drive sneakernet unless we are a
fortune 500 company. Networking with XP blows in my opinion. It is far too
difficult to get running & keep running. Microsoft should not even do it if
they are not going to support it better. It's crap like this that makes me
wished I had stayed with windows 98 or 2000. I have never had such
networking woes, not even running a novell network back in the day.
Hopefully someone will reply with somthing that will work cause this is
really frustrating.



"David Hettel" wrote:

> This is usually caused by a misconfigured firewall. I would suggest that you
> run the Network Setup Wizard on both computers, making sure to enable File &
> Printer Sharing, and reboot. The only "gotcha" is that this will turn on the
> XP's SP2 Windows Firewall. If you aren't running a third-party firewall or
> have an antivirus with "Internet Worm Protection" (like Symantec or Norton
> 2005/06/07) which acts as a firewall, then you'll be fine. If you however
> have third-party firewall software, you'll need to configure it to allow the
> Local Area Network traffic as trusted. I usually suggest that you do this
> with your firewall with an IP range. Ex. would be 192.168.1.0-192.168.1.254.
> Obviously you would substitute your correct subnet.
>
> http://www.ezlan.net/sharing.html
>
> http://www.ezlan.net/Installing.html
>
>
> How to set up a home network:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...p/homenet.mspx
>
>
> --
> David Hettel
>
> Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group for everyone
> to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions addressed directly to me in
> E-mail or news groups.
>
> Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
>
> DISCLAIMER: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranty of any kind,
> either expressed or implied, made in relation to the accuracy, reliability
> or content of this post. The author shall not be liable for any direct,
> indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use of, or
> inability to use, information or opinions expressed in this post and confers
> no rights.
>
>
>
> "Starbuck" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:6F5CCB58-FC6C-4641-B36F-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I have 2 machines, connected thru a router, one wireless, the other wired.
> > The wireless machine sees the wired machine, sees the shareed drive, & the
> > folders.
> > As soon as I try to copy the folder to the wireless machine from the wired
> > machine I get an accss denied error see administrator.
> >
> > Both machines have the same username & password established, The folder
> > that I want to copy is a sub folder of the documents & settings folder for
> > my
> > username.
> >
> > I have bought a new machine & I want to copy the folder & other folders to
> > the new machine in a different location so that I can reinstall things as
> > I
> > wish.
> >
> > I have never had as much trouble networking machines as I have with XP. I
> > have never, ever had issues like this with any other OS. W2K & others
> > networked flawlessly.
>
>

"Starbuck" wrote:
> I have 2 machines, connected thru a router, one wireless, the other wired.
> The wireless machine sees the wired machine, sees the shareed drive, & the
> folders.
> As soon as I try to copy the folder to the wireless machine from the wired
> machine I get an accss denied error see administrator.
>
> Both machines have the same username & password established, The folder
> that I want to copy is a sub folder of the documents & settings folder for my
> username.
>
> I have bought a new machine & I want to copy the folder & other folders to
> the new machine in a different location so that I can reinstall things as I
> wish.
>
> I have never had as much trouble networking machines as I have with XP. I
> have never, ever had issues like this with any other OS. W2K & others
> networked flawlessly.

The folders under your user profiile have NTFS level protection,
besides the network share protection.
The purpose of this is exactly to protect your private files from somebody
who managed to share the entire disk

A quick solution can be removing the NTFS protection
(give read access to everybody) ,
or use the Files & settings transfer wizard:
Programs -> accessories-> system tools

Regards,
--PA

How do I remove NTFS protection? When I click on the folder & select
properties it will not open a new window with the proberties.

While NTFS protection is fine, for users, as an admin on the system, I
should be able to copy anything without this much problem. It should be a
part of the ADMIN properties in User Accounts. Right now this is making
simple networking a PITA. It should not be this difficult to do. Nor should
it take up days of my life.





"Pavel A." wrote:

> "Starbuck" wrote:
> > I have 2 machines, connected thru a router, one wireless, the other wired.
> > The wireless machine sees the wired machine, sees the shareed drive, & the
> > folders.
> > As soon as I try to copy the folder to the wireless machine from the wired
> > machine I get an accss denied error see administrator.
> >
> > Both machines have the same username & password established, The folder
> > that I want to copy is a sub folder of the documents & settings folder for my
> > username.
> >
> > I have bought a new machine & I want to copy the folder & other folders to
> > the new machine in a different location so that I can reinstall things as I
> > wish.
> >
> > I have never had as much trouble networking machines as I have with XP. I
> > have never, ever had issues like this with any other OS. W2K & others
> > networked flawlessly.
>
> The folders under your user profiile have NTFS level protection,
> besides the network share protection.
> The purpose of this is exactly to protect your private files from somebody
> who managed to share the entire disk
>
> A quick solution can be removing the NTFS protection
> (give read access to everybody) ,
> or use the Files & settings transfer wizard:
> Programs -> accessories-> system tools
>
> Regards,
> --PA
>