What type of sharing do you have enabled?  User or Password?
Also are you logged into your Win2k machine as administrator
or as a user? And do the user names being used have access
rights to your shared drives? Might check sharing properties
for the w2k machine.

Doug


On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 23:36:24 +1000
 Ultra <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> My PC runs win2k, Netgear FA311 10/100 NIC. Protocal:
> TCP/IP, NetBEUI, and IPX/SPX/NWlink. File & print share
> enabled, guest account enabled. HDD sharing set to
> everyone full controll.
> My friends run win98, winMe, and one win2k.
> everyone has his own IP address, all PCs linked to a
> switch, no server.
>
> The Problem: I was trying to LAN with my friends to play
> LAN games and share files. I could play LAN games over
> hours without any problems (ping time is very good), I
> can see everyone on network, everyone can see me too, I
> can play large video files located on other computers, I
> can copy files from my computer and paste to other
> computers, all working fine. But, I cannot copy files
> from any other PCs to my PC, when I tried to copy, my PC
> will freeze. Also anyone cannot access my HDD (asking
> password which I have no idea what it is).
>
> I've tried another NIC (known good acer ALN 325),
> different cables, uninstall & reinstall protocals, with
> no luck.
>

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