Shared Folder??

[Elemental1998]

I have to systems linked together thru 10/100 nic's. For the most part "most" things work well witht eh excepts od two main problems:

1) Why on my slave CP can't I share all folders. I select C: and said told it to share the entire drive and all subfolders but it does nothing. I had to go into each folder and tell it to share one at a time. After this was done I discovered I could not share anything in the Program Files folder or the Windows folder.
Any idea what I am doing wrong?

2) Every few days it seems my pc's stop seeing each other and I cannot access any folders. The quick fix is to just use the repair option and things work again. This is fine since both PC's are only a few feet apart but I plan on moving the one pc to the other end of the house. Any thoughts?

Both pc's are using windows XP Pro with a peer to peer network

thanks guys:(

[Big Booger]

http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/wxppntsh.htm

I recommend you to visit that site above and read through it thoroughly. Make sure you have configured your network properly.

YOu might also want to check this site out.
http://www.praticallynetworked.com

specifically take a look at the following from that site:

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp/filesharing.htm

They have tons of tutorials setup on this very issue.

Something you might consider:
check to see if you have a firewall, if so you might want to disable it by default when using your network. Check both XP and any third party software you might have installed.

If you have a router you might want to check to see if it is allowing traffic through your network. Might need to set up a DMZ of some sort.

Hope that helps,
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[Ramchip]

One thing I have found is that you can't share the Program Files or My Documents folders....BUT you CAN share folders inside thos folders! I have a folder inside Program Files shared and it shows up just fine(eDonkey\Incoming) But if I go to c:\Program Files...it won't let me in!!

Hope that helps...