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Unable to view directory contents

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xwb

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I have a strange situation on one Windows XP 64 bit, SP2 installation.

All other machines can view the contents of a particular directory over the network except one. It just shows an empty directory. What is strange that it can see the contents of all the other directories: just this one is blank.

I can view that directory through other XP64, XP32, Linux, Vista32, Vista64 and W764 machines.

I am logged into the domain so it is not a domain issue. The ACL has been set so that everyone can read it. There may be something different about the machine that cannot view the directory but I don't know what it might be. Any ideas?

 
I would attempt to remap the share...

first disconnect that share, then reboot, then reconnect the share by using, either or both of the following procedures to connect to share:

1. using UNC path: \\server\\share (or \\IP of Server\sharename)

2. navigate through the wizard to said share...



Ben
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Ditto on Ben's comment.

As well as checking the Share Permissions, have a look at the actual NTFS access permissions for the folder.


Sometimes the Desktop.ini file in the folder can cause these type of problems too. You may have a corrupted Desktop.ini file that could cause this type of behavior. This explains what I mean.

 
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