Can't See Files

[martybhawk]

I have 4 Webservers running W2K and IIS 5.0. On all 4, when I map to them, I can see and manipulate files/folders. When I go to My Network Places, I can see all 4 servers but when I try to open them, files/folders only show up on 2 of them. All the servers are supposed to be set up the same. This is happening from both W2K and XP Pro workstations.

 

[franklin97355]

All the servers are supposed to be set up the same.

Yes, but are they? Sounds like two of them are mot set to share.

 

[bcastner]

Check that File and Printer Sharing is installed on all. It sounds as if two only have Client for Microsoft Networking.

 

[martybhawk]

Thanks for replying.

I checked my sharing and it seems OK. The File and Print Sharing service was there. I uninstalled and re-installed it. Still no help.

Another thought - I ran across an article that FTP'ing to a webserver that has the FP Server Ext installed can cause problems. The article seemed to focus on trying to publish your website with FTP. I don't publish using FTP, but on the 2 servers I can no longer see the files on, I do have a couple of programmers that download data files using FTP from a mainframe to a location on the webserver. They have been doing this for about 3 months and this problem I have just showed up about 2 weeks ago. Anybody have any experience with this?

 

[bcastner]

I do not think this is an FTP consequence.

It sounds like a basic NTFS permissions issue. Does the group Everyone have full rights to the Folders on the problematic servers?

 

[franklin97355]

Not only does f&p sharing need to be on but the files or folders need to be shared on the computer. Make sure you have at least something shared.