Shared Folders and NIS 2008/2009

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Hi RonK-Cox 

 

Have  you checked the trust control settings in the Norton firewall?

 

See the solution in this post for details.

 

Hope it helps.

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Hi -- yes, all my devices are set to "Full Trust" in NIS 2008 and NIS 2009

 

Ron

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Hi -- thanks for the information.  However, I tried rebooting both the machine running NIS 2008 as well as the machine running NIS 2009.  I would think that would mitigate Windows incrementing counts.  After both systems reboot, the laptop still cannot see the folders on the desktop.  I can ping the desktop from the laptop but can't get to the folders.

 

Ron

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I have NIS 2008 installed on my laptop.  I have NIS 2009 installed on my desktop.  Both machines are running XP Pro.  Shared folders on the desktop often cannot be accessed by the notebook computer.  They become accessible and then inaccessible again – throughout the work day.  Has anyone any idea on what is causing this?

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Hi,

 

A couple of things to verify:

 

1.  If the NIS 2008 machine is trying to access the NIS 2009 machine, make sure the NIS 2009 machine has the network set to "Full Trust" or "Shared" (via the Network map).     If you more than 1 network adapter, you will need to set this policy on the adapter that's connected to the same network as the NIS 2008 machine.

 

2.  Are you accessing by machine name or by IP? 

3.  Are you accessing by a mapped drive?  If so,  what does the mapped drive map to?  IP address or machine name?

4.  A simple test to see if it's the Norton firewall is to disable it and try the connection (remember to re-enable afterwards).

5.  Finally, make sure they are on the same subnet.

 

Thanks,

 

/Chester

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Yes.

 

I know that Windows sometimes doesn't shut down a shared connection when you open one but it doesn't keep it accessible either.  So the next time you try to access the folder, it opens another connection.  And then somewhere it exceeds some limit and refuses to connect until the other connections are closed, usually a matter of time.

 

There are ways around this, some involving the limits you set in the registry.

 

I am sorry about not being precise, but the way I found my solutions was to copy the exact wording of the error message and paste it into a microsoft website search.

 

One thing that I think helps, however, is to assign the shared folders a drive letter.  I believe that keeps it always available and allows windows to go directly there instead of reopening the connection.

 

I apologize for the sloppy language and ambiguous wording -- let us know if anything I said proves of use.