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Not making shared connections

ponderingturtle

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It seems my laptop while accessing the internet fine does not want to play with the other computers on our home network. So I can no longer print from it or use shared drives on desktop machines.

The settings are all correct at least in the basic and advanced network settings in the control panel. And it worked and I have not changed settings from when it worked. I am wondering if there is a simple fix or if I should back up my data and restore an immaged copy of my harddrive from last year.
 
Dancing David said:
Do you have your machine set to be seen by the network and are the workgroup names the same?
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Yes I can see the machines. I get a message saying I do not have permission to access the shared drive, and when I click on the one of the other computers icon it tells me I have it spelled wrong.

Just trying to see if there is an easier fix than returning to an earlier version of my computer.
 
I don't have a solution, but I've had a similar problem and I'm sure its a SW setting on one of the boxes. Twice I had problems transferring a batch of files from one box to another on my home lan. I could see the "to" box on the lan and I was on the "from" box and each time got the inadequate permission error. So, I walked over to the "to" box and did the transfer from there with no problem. In each case the "to" box was an IBM Thinkpad and the file sharing permissions were identical on all the boxes on my lan.

Since I had an easy solution (get off my butt and walk upstairs) I didn't research the problem, but I'm sure it has to do with security settings outside of the standard "file and print sharing" settings.
 
ponderingturtle said:
Yes I can see the machines. I get a message saying I do not have permission to access the shared drive, and when I click on the one of the other computers icon it tells me I have it spelled wrong.

Just trying to see if there is an easier fix than returning to an earlier version of my computer.
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Hmm, I have to look into the permissions issue, what OS are you running on the machines?
 
Well looking through MS Support (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Why-can-t-I-connect-to-other-computers) was a bust, so both machines have Win7, and the machine with the shared folder , the folder it set to share in permission? I am not as familiar with Win7, the host machine is not using a private folder?

The host machine with the shared folder has a homegroup and you have joined that home group (with the other computer), assuming they are both Win7
 
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Dancing David said:
Well looking through MS Support (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Why-can-t-I-connect-to-other-computers) was a bust, so both machines have Win7, and the machine with the shared folder , the folder it set to share in permission? I am not as familiar with Win7, the host machine is not using a private folder?

The host machine with the shared folder has a homegroup and you have joined that home group (with the other computer), assuming they are both Win7
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Yep shared folder and I used to make connections. I have the folder turned to shared and turned off on network sharing security so it is a public folder on our network. I think I will have to revert my laptop.
 
The reason I suggested checking event viewer is that on my Win7 system I noticed a corruption of the owner attributes of some files - the uid of the owner was corrupted so it didn't point to my id any more.
 
Wudang said:
When you try to link to the shared drive can you see any security or other errors in event viewer? (Control panel -> Admin tools?) You should see something like a failed type 3 logon I think?
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It does not create an error message it just says I do not have permission to access it.
 
Have you checked the permissions? There are 2 spots to look at, the shared spot and the permissions spot. If you right click on the file that is giving you the raspberry and click "properties" and the sharing tab, it says that it's shared up the top. Then click "advanced sharing" and click the "permissions" tab. Have a look in there and see whether you or your group of users has got the right permissions. If it worked before, you should have, but Windows does some weird stuff and might have changed something by itself. I don't know how Windows can think that something is shared when you can't actually do anything because you don't have permission, but I've come up against that before and you have to enable sharing and give yourself permission to do stuff.

Another idea is that your firewall is blocking your access?
 
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