My home network is behind a router. So I left my PC and laptops to have simple share instead. Both are under the same domain. I can open up each to see the shared drives and folders from the other. Here's the problem:

My laptop can see every shared drives and folders on my PC (XP SP2). It can open all the shared folders on the HDDs. HOWEVER, it can't open the DVD drives even though it sees that they're shared on the network. Keep giving me errors saying that I do not have permission.

However, I can open my laptop DVD drive on my PC and view the files in it just fine. I shared both the same way, same setup.

cany anyone give me some tips?

Thanks a lot

 

domain? or workgroup?

what permissions do you have set on your DVD drives? do you have full permissions for everyone?

 

Oops, i mean in the same workgroup and it's simple share (not secure share), so it should give full permission.

 

when you right click on the drives and select sharing and security, what permissions are there?


and i hate simple file sharing h:

 

a check box where it says "share this folder on my network" with its share name as E