Shared Folder Is Not Accessible

Problem:

After sharing folders on Windows 2003, unable to access them from Windows XP. XP does not prompt for the Windows 2003 login. The following message appears:

\APPSWINDOWS11gR2 is not accessible. You might not have permission 
to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this 
server to find out if you have access permissions. 
Access denied

Solution:

Manually map network drives to the Windows 2003 shared folders from XP machine using the NET USE command, adding the /USER switch to include the user name.

C:Documents and Settingsvseeram>net use
New connections will be remembered.

Status       Local     Remote                    Network

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Disconnected           \appswindows11gR2       Microsoft Windows Network
Disconnected           \appswindowsOLR60       Microsoft Windows Network
The command completed successfully.

C:Documents and Settingsvseeram>net use \appswindows11gr2 /delete
\appswindows11gr2 was deleted successfully.

C:Documents and Settingsvseeram>net use \appswindowsolr60 /delete
\appswindowsolr60 was deleted successfully.

C:Documents and Settingsvseeram>net use
New connections will be remembered.

There are no entries in the list.

C:Documents and Settingsvseeram>net use Z: \APPSWINDOWSOLR60 /USER:APPSWINDO
WSAdministrator
The password or user name is invalid for \APPSWINDOWSOLR60.

Enter the password for 'APPSWINDOWSAdministrator' to connect to 'APPSWINDOWS':

The command completed successfully.

C:Documents and Settingsvseeram>net use Y: \APPSWINDOWS11gR2 /USER:APPSWINDO
WSAdministrator
The command completed successfully.

C:Documents and Settingsvseeram>

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