File Transfer

[Gary Pultz]

I am having difficulties sending files on our local
network. It is an unmanaged switch linking all the
workstations and all of the workstations are connected to
a Windows 2000 server running Active directory.

Symptoms:

XP (v4.7) to XP (v4.7), file transfers either direction
work,

XP (v4.7) to W2k (v5.0.0543), The XP box and send file
and the W2k can receive them, however when the W2k box
send a file to the XP box it fails!

The file transfer initializes but then seems to die.

XXX would like to send you the file "snowboard.gif" (3
Kb). Transfer time is less than 1 minute with a 28.8
modem. Do you want to Accept (Alt+T) or Decline (Alt+D)
the invitation?

Transfer of file "snowboard.gif" from XXX has been
accepted. Starting transfer...

You have failed to receive file "snowboard.gif" from XXX.

Thank you!

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Gary,

When you send a file, the person receiving connects to the sender and downloads the file.
Either the Win2k machine has something blocking the XP machine from connecting to it, or the
wrong IP is being sent in the file transfer request for the XP machine to connect to. Sinec
this is a local network, I believe it's probably the later. From your description this does
sound like a corporate network, so really this shouldn't be the case but MSN Messenger 5 will
"detect" Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) gateways, and use that IP instead -- if somehow one
of these is running on the network, it may be using that IP instead (and only other MSN
Messenger 5 clients will be able to receive files locally). If you have a packet
scanner/sniffer handy, you can actually scan this and see what IPs are being sent, or if you
don't, you can simply try installing MSN Messenger 4.x on the Win2k PC:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/msnmessenger/install/4.6/win98me/en-us/mmssetup.exe
or install MSN Messenger 5 on the XP machine you're testing with:
http://messenger.msn.com/download/download.asp?client=1
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Windows MVP, Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

"Gary Pultz" > wrote in message
...
> I am having difficulties sending files on our local
> network. It is an unmanaged switch linking all the
> workstations and all of the workstations are connected to
> a Windows 2000 server running Active directory.
>
> Symptoms:
>
> XP (v4.7) to XP (v4.7), file transfers either direction
> work,
>
> XP (v4.7) to W2k (v5.0.0543), The XP box and send file
> and the W2k can receive them, however when the W2k box
> send a file to the XP box it fails!
>
> The file transfer initializes but then seems to die.
>
> XXX would like to send you the file "snowboard.gif" (3
> Kb). Transfer time is less than 1 minute with a 28.8
> modem. Do you want to Accept (Alt+T) or Decline (Alt+D)
> the invitation?
>
> Transfer of file "snowboard.gif" from XXX has been
> accepted. Starting transfer...
>
> You have failed to receive file "snowboard.gif" from XXX.
>
> Thank you!