Networking 101 please!

[unfaithfulsfan]

I hope there's a simple solution to this problem. I installed a third Windows 7 computer at Village Hall a couple of months ago. All three of these boxes are identical in specs and Windows versions. It was recently brought to my attention that one of the clerk's computers has an accounting app that needs to update from the new box.

I can share drives and folders on the new computer till I'm blue in the face and set permissions till I'm even more blue. I can see said drives and folders, and they say "Share," from the clerk's computer but I cannot connect to them in any way, shape or form. I get the "Windows cannot access..... You do not have permission..." I've tried mapping a drive but that fails as well.

I can run amok in and out of folders on the other clerk's computer but nothing on the accountant's. This is a very simple DHCP network with a Windows 2000 Server server, the three W7 boxes and one other PC in the mayor's office running W2K.

Please tell me this is something simple I've overlooked.

Thanks,
Jack

[smack323]

try using a / or \ in front of the user name when you are trying to connect to the other PC.. ie: /administrator , p@ssw0rd
we have had times at work when we need to access network devices from a windows 7 machine that requires that..

[unfaithfulsfan]

Well, just in the event one of y'all encounters this PITA, the quick-fix solution is to create a user account on the offending computer identical to the user account on the computer that's trying to access the offending computer. Works like a charm. Thanks to Tadziu, my former boss, to whom I owe a 5-pack of Macanudo or Cohiba or Gurkha or similar cigars. He did not tell me why it worked but, at the time, it was more than sufficient to say that it did work.

I guess it has to do with "Password Protected Sharing," but I haven't yet tested my theory. I hope to have time this week to stop by Village Hall.

Jack