Want a challenge? Here's a tough one.

[Joe]

Here's my problem.

I have two pcs on my home network both on WinXP Pro.
Filesharing is enabled and I can share files just fine.
PC 1 has two folders shared "My Documents" and "Folder2"
Folder2 has allowed access rights granted to
Everyone. "My Documents" only has access (Share and
Filesystem) granted to "UserA," the main user of PC 1.
From my PC 2 (the remote PC), I can access Folder2 on PC
1, but when I try to access "My Documents" on the PC1
from PC2, I get "Access is denied." I've tried mapping
the network folder and using "UserA's" login credentials
but am told that I can not map a folder that is already
mapped (which it isn't)...

Here's the interesting part. PC2 also has "My Documents"
shared with access granted only to UserB, the primary
user of PC2. If UserA tries to connect to PC2 from PC1,
UserA receives a prompt for login. Using UserB's
credentials UserA can access the "My Documents" folder on
PC2. Why doesn't this work the other way around?

Please help!!

[XPUSER]

The following MS KB article may be of help:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304040


"Joe" > wrote in message
...
> Here's my problem.
>
> I have two pcs on my home network both on WinXP Pro.
> Filesharing is enabled and I can share files just fine.
> PC 1 has two folders shared "My Documents" and "Folder2"
> Folder2 has allowed access rights granted to
> Everyone. "My Documents" only has access (Share and
> Filesystem) granted to "UserA," the main user of PC 1.
> From my PC 2 (the remote PC), I can access Folder2 on PC
> 1, but when I try to access "My Documents" on the PC1
> from PC2, I get "Access is denied." I've tried mapping
> the network folder and using "UserA's" login credentials
> but am told that I can not map a folder that is already
> mapped (which it isn't)...
>
> Here's the interesting part. PC2 also has "My Documents"
> shared with access granted only to UserB, the primary
> user of PC2. If UserA tries to connect to PC2 from PC1,
> UserA receives a prompt for login. Using UserB's
> credentials UserA can access the "My Documents" folder on
> PC2. Why doesn't this work the other way around?
>
> Please help!!