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August 6, 2008 at 12:20 PM
john.wythe

\\PC is not accessible. The user name could not be found.

by john.wythe . Updated 17 years, 10 months ago

I getting this message when I try to view the shares on the named PC. I have three systems.
1) Windows XP Professional Version 2002 SP2
2) Windows 2000
3) Windows 2003

The XP system has two users on it. User A and user B. User A is also setup on the other two systems with the same password. User B on the XP can access shares on the other two systems using user A (entered at the pop screen). User A can only access the shares on system 3.
When I try to access system 2 either with the computer name, or the share directly I get \\PC is not accessible (where PC is the name of system 2.

I also have two linux systems with Samba shares that act the same way, one works, one doesn’t. User A has the problem user B doesn’t.

I would appear that something is stored on the XP system by user and PC. I have been unable to locate anything in the registry or in an INI file that would be a candidate.

In the recent past I was able to access those systems, now I can’t. I have 2 linux systems and the W2K system that I can no longer access.

Anyone have any ideas or seen this problem before?

John

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