Hi:

Having spent an inordinate amount of time over the years, and most
recently in the past two days, trying to understand and diagnose
connectivity issues in a mixed LAN workgroup with XP, Win2000, Win2003
Server, Windows 98, etc workstations, in which the general advice is
to "check permissions" or "refer to your network administrator", my
questions a

Is there a document and software floating around somewhere that
describes the steps to diagnose shared drive connectivity issues in a
mixed workgroup environment?

In particular, is there a) a standard to set the workgroup
workstations to a known base-line condition, b) a tutorial walking
through all the lower to higher level connections, such as using net
view, net use etc to explore permissions a the lowest level, then
moving up to the Windows level, and c) is there software that will do
this analysis for you as opposed to having to do it manually?.

Thank you in advance for your help.

-- Roy Zider