You didn't provide some info so let me assume some stuff.  You are getting
an application error, not a windows op/sys error.  If windows is giving you
the error, you can simply stop sharing the directory, boot the complaining
system, and when it complains again, tell it you don't want to renew the
connection the next time.  If your pc is set to 'restore network connections
on logon' this will happen right after you enter your password.

Now, if its an application showing an error message, its even simpler.  The
shared folder or its contents are read-only.  Peachtree used to do this to
me all the time. You can go to the server pc and use select all,
right-click, properties, clear the read-only check, and it will fix all the
files.  go up a level and check the folder too.
With applications, never trust the error message, if a simple disk write
fails, they can get hysterical, claiming the building is on fire.
Tom Turak

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Jobe [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 11:08 AM

Yesterday I was making some changes to my in-home LAN.  What I didn't
realize was that there was a file open on a shared volume (physically
resident on the machine I was changing, open on another machine).  I did not
receive a message that this file was open, so I went ahead and made my
changes and rebooted my machine.  The problem now is that the machine that
had the file open cannot access the directory the file was in.  I get a
message back that the network password is invalid or the connection is not
present.  I can read the directory after selecting cancel on the invalid
prompt, but cannot write to the directory.  The other shared directories are
still shared without any problems.  How do I get my shared access back?

This is on a Win9x peer-to-peer network.  Selected directories are shared,
not the whole partition.  Protocol is TCP/IP.

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