"Chuck" wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 19:09:02 -0800, Connie <Con***@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
> >I have an external hard drive attached to my desktop computer, running
> >windows xp home edition sp-2, which I use for back and downloading and just
> >recently I have been unable to access this drive from my laptop thru my home
> >network even though it does show to be on the network and is shared. I have
> >formatted this drive and it is ntfs file system and the message I get on the
> >the laptop is that i may not have the premission to use this network
> >resource, but also get not enough server storage is avail to process this
> >command. ??
>
> Connie,
>
> That's a well known problem here.  It relates to an obscure registry setting,
> and is generally caused by an antivirus installation.
> <http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/server-functionality-affected-by.html>
> http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/server-functionality-affected-by.html
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
> http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
> Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
> My        email         is          AT         DOT
>    actual       address    pchuck       mvps        org.
>

>Worked great thanks so much for your assistance.
>
>"Chuck" wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 19:09:02 -0800, Connie <Con***@discussions.microsoft.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >I have an external hard drive attached to my desktop computer, running
>> >windows xp home edition sp-2, which I use for back and downloading and just
>> >recently I have been unable to access this drive from my laptop thru my home
>> >network even though it does show to be on the network and is shared. I have
>> >formatted this drive and it is ntfs file system and the message I get on the
>> >the laptop is that i may not have the premission to use this network
>> >resource, but also get not enough server storage is avail to process this
>> >command. ??
>>
>> Connie,
>>
>> That's a well known problem here.  It relates to an obscure registry setting,
>> and is generally caused by an antivirus installation.
>> <http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/server-functionality-affected-by.html>
>> http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/server-functionality-affected-by.html
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
>> http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
>> Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
>> My        email         is          AT         DOT
>>    actual       address    pchuck       mvps        org.
>>