Drive Mapping / Connection

Dear Folks.,

My problem is this. I cannot map a drive on my laptop upstairs to my desktop downstairs.I have 3 machines on a small home network. They are all running Windows XP Professional. I want to be able to map a drive on my laptop upstairs to connect with the desktop downstairs but no matter which 2 ways I know how to attempt to make the connection I get the following error:

Logon Failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer.

I tried using the Run command and entering the following:

\\192.168.0.54\c$

or using "map a drive" through windows explorer and logon as a different user...I then log on as the local admin or the desktop machine but I still get the same error listed above..Any suggestions on how I may map this drive? Thanks much! Have a good day!!

JJ

 

Hello Joe,

On any XP Pro computer check the Group Policy settings. Check your Local Security Policy (Click Start - Control Panel - Administrative Tools). Click to expand Local Policies, then click User Rights Assignments. Click "Access this computer from the network" and make sure that the Everyone group is included. Click "Deny access to this computer from the network" and make sure that the Everyone group is NOT included.

 

I suspect what you are doing is trying to attach to the "Default Share ". I don't pretend to understand the default share, but I can tell you I've never managed to do anything with it. Try creating a new share using the New Share button at the bottom of the Sharing tab on the folder/drive Properties, and work from there. In particular you will need to select the access permssions for you new share appropriately.

 

Rights and policies

Thanks for all your help. It was a rights issue! Have a great day....

Hi Ran.

 

What is this geez

Now when I try to connect to the machine in the basement its like this:

\\192.168.0.45\c$

I get a logon box in which the user name is already populated but is grayed out. It has the computer name / localguest (domain01/localguest)

and it is waiting for a password. Not sure what the password is or should be ...never heard of localguest either. The domain01 machine does not have a localguest account on it....What is goin on! I just want to map to my machine downstairs occasionally ......what the?????????????? Help please.....

Ran

 

As I said - don't use the Default Share. These are created for each drive and are for "administrative purposes ", whatever that means. They are named C$, D$, E$, F$ etc, hence my thinking that that is what you are trying to use.

 

Create a new share on drive C:. Call it DriveC if you like. Set the permissions as desired and then try accessing that share. It will be visible in My Network Places and easily connected to.

Administrative Shares are system generated and restricted to Administrators (Admins on the sharing computer). They permit network access for "administrative" purposes.