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Sharing on a Peer-to-Peer Network

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by rawright

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I recently installed a new XP network - 3 identical Dell machines - linked by wireless cards and sharing an Internet connection through a Residential Gateway. I created 4 identical user accounts on each machine, as there are 4 potential users and there's no way to dictate which PC each might use. It all works fine - printers print, and folders in the Shared Folders of each PC are usable by the others. The problem is installing a program that relies on a shared DB on one host, but which must be accessed by all 3. Remote hosts are denied access to the DB, and I can't map the drive! I've shared the DB folder with everyone, opened up all permissions, yet the problem persists. The Simple mode is off, giving me full control over security, but I can't find a way to do this short of dragging the DB to the Shared Folders! Any ideas?

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by enserng

Can a remote user open any file, on each share and can they map the other shares and not just the one with the backend of the database? What database program?

by rawright

Only shares in the Shared Folders directory are accessible, even though all shares are visible. Out of desperation rather than by any plan, I added passwords to the users' accounts and this seems to have resolved the matter. I still have found nothing in the docs to suggest this solution, but it worked.

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