Every time I try to access my brothers PC I get

\\_pc_name_ is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource...Access is denied.

I'm lost.

Help?

Probably windows firewall - Right click network neighborhood - properties- find the network connection you're using - Right Click - Properties. Hit the advanced tab up at the top. Check your firewall settings (Turn it off and get yourself a real firewall/router).

I assume you don't have a domain.

Make sure you have identical users on both PCs with the same passwords (and your password cannot be blank). I would also suggest you turn off simple file sharing on both PCs. If you want anything to show up when you go \\pcname you will need to make a non-hidden share.

No domain. No windows firewall. I tried resetting the shares but no go.

My brothers pc can access all other computers but no one can access his.

1) Try accessing it via ip instead of name

2) I got fed up with random errors such as this happening WITHOUT any changes or explanation and instead use FTP (both with normal clients and Windows "Web Folders") internally (at over 8MB/sec compared to the 4MB/sec smb gave...).

Posted by Beryl 1) Try accessing it via ip instead of name 2) I got fed up with random errors such as this happening WITHOUT any changes or explanation and instead use FTP (both with normal clients and Windows "Web Folders") internally (at over 8MB/sec compared to the 4MB/sec smb gave...).

and with utility like net drive you can mount an ftp location as a mapped network drive.

Posted by Chainsaw and with utility like net drive...

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Posted by Chainsaw and with utility like net drive you can mount an ftp location as a mapped network drive.

You can also do the same with Krusader under Linux; Krusader is a two-pane file manager--it allows mounting of smb shares, ftp, sftp and something called fish, which apparently is a variant of ssh that uses port 22.

Here's what Google has to say about fish://

Fish is a protocol working over an ssh connection to a unix account. SFtp is a protocol implemented in ssh2 as sftp subsystem. By Aaron J. Seigo on Friday 14/Feb/2003, @00:39: fish works even on systems that don't allow or can't do sftp (crazy admins, old ssh, etc). otherwise they're pretty much the same functionality wise. fish puts a perl script in your home dir (.fishsrv.pl), while sftp doesn't require that. instead it requires a ssh2 server that has sftp support turned on. By Gunter Ohrner on Friday 14/Feb/2003, @16:25 Additionally, or, more precise, because of these differences, in my experience sftp has a much better performance on low-end servers and does not load their CPU that much. In contrast an advantage of fish is that it does support symlinks transparently while sftp does not, at least not with my current server configuration which is pretty much Debian Woody default concerning the sshd. ...

As always, like most other linux software, Krusader is free.

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Posted by ex-goose-villager You can also do the same with Krusader under Linux; Krusader is a two-pane file manager--it allows mounting of smb shares, ftp, sftp and something called fish, which apparently is a variant of ssh that uses port 22.

Krusader looks is a normal FTP client, and not something that allows you to mount the remote system into your local filesystem like NetDrive does and is therefore nothing special... LUFS/FUSE/FTPfs all allow mounting ftp as a normal filesystem object in Linux (which IS what we're talking about), but nothing so far in this thread is remotely linux related, nor is the topic - so none were mentioned...