A network I'm helping a friend set up has problems with accessibility of
certain shares and the messages one gets at the user level are far from
adequate in diagnosing the problem. Is any more information available to a
program that could identify the exact reason why the access was denied?

TIA
Norm

"Norm Dresner" <ndrez@att.net> wrote in message
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Most probably the actual error message code is just "Access Denied"
but in some case you may be able to check other things to determine
the actual cause. You could for instance check if you/he/she has access
to the Registry remotely...

However, wouldn't it be easiest just to use OS tools to find out:
- Event log to check for errors (including logon errors)
- Share application to check for sessions
- try making secondary share ... first for Everyone and later with
restrictions
- certify that the "servers" account/password is exactly the same
as that of the client side (assuming you are not using a domain).

- Sten