[dba-Tech] Is this laptop any good?

Her drive C is shared.  Tried the chicken.  No luck.

Rocky

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Tydda" <Jon.Tydda at alcontrol.co.uk>
To: "Dba-Tech (E-mail)" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 9:16 AM
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Is this laptop any good?


> Doncha just love computers? :-)
>
> Has she got anything shared? You need to have something shared before you
> can access it... other than that, nothing springs to mind.
>
> Could always try rubbing a lucky rabbits foot, or sacrifice a chicken or
> something...
>
>
> Jon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software [mailto:bchacc at san.rr.com]
> Sent: 24 June 2004 17:09
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Is this laptop any good?
>
>
> Jon:
>
> For reasons which I will probably never understand, Notebook is now
> accessible by the other machines in the network.  In the process of trying
> to share the Notebook C drive I ran the network setup Wizard, which create
> something called a Bridge which I had to delete to get the Notebook back
on
> the network.  After which everyone could access the notebook.
>
> The biggest problem now remaining is that none of the machines can access
my
> wife's computer although she can access all the other machines.  Any hints
> on that?
>
> TIA
>
> is
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jon Tydda" <Jon.Tydda at alcontrol.co.uk>
> To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'"
> <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 8:25 AM
> Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Is this laptop any good?
>
>
> > If you open explorer on the notebook, and right click on the C:\ drive a
> > menu appears. Click sharing and it will give you the name of the share.
> > That's what you have to type to gain access to the drive. How did you
> > connect to it without knowing the name of the share?
> >
> > Maybe it's not a question of the sharename, but of user rights. Maybe
you
> > need to change the share permissions to include users of the other pc?
> Just
> > guessing here as I'm a domain admin at work and can access everything...
> and
> > I don't have an XP pc to hand to check on.
> >
> >
> > Jon
>
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