[dba-Tech] W7 Permissions

Lembit Soobik lembit.soobik at weihenstephan.org
Mon Feb 27 11:10:06 CST 2012


Rocky,
Do you have a password set on both machines? IIRC, you need this in W7. It 
won't allow connection to a machine without password.

Lembit

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rocky Smolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
To: "'Off Topic'" <dba-ot at databaseadvisors.com>; "List" 
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 5:40 PM
Subject: [dba-Tech] W7 Permissions


> Dear List(s):
>
> I have two machines in my LAN running W7. I can push files from machine 1 
> to
> machine 2 and pull files as well.  But I cannot see machine 1 from machine 
> 2
> although all drives on both systems' drives are shared.
>
> I can see and access the folder Users on Machine 1 from Machine 2 - that's
> the only one I can see - but that's the public folder and maybe W7 has set
> that one up that way.
>
> Machine 2 is my backup box so mostly I'm dragging and dropping files from
> machine 1 to machine 2.  But I have to resolve this incompatibility 
> between
> A2003 and A20210 and machine 2 is my 2010 test bed.  So now back and forth
> is becoming more useful.
>
> When I display machine 1 on machine 2 I see the Drive C (shared) but when 
> I
> try to open it up I get the usual message 'You do not have permission to
> access..." and tells me to contact my system administrator.  But I'm the
> administrator and I'm clueless.
>
> How do I get machine 1 to allow access from machine 2?
>
> MTIA
>
> Rocky Smolin
> Beach Access Software
> 858-259-4334
> www.bchacc.com <http://www.bchacc.com/>
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