Thanks for this - I'd already done everything except the firewall exceptions
which I've now set but I still have the problem.

"RRR_News" wrote:

> Have you check the following:
> On the XP Pro SP2:
> 1. Check the firewall settings, make sure under the Exceptions tab that File & printing sharing is enabled.
> 2. If there is a third party firewall program such as Zone Alarm, you will need to allow file & printing sharing in that program.
>
> On the W98SE machine:
> 1. Right-click the shared folder> Properties> Sharing tab> Make sure it is set to be shared, and that FULL access is selected.
> 2. If there is a third party firewall program such as Zone Alarm on this PC, you will need to allow file & printing sharing in that program. You may need to add the XP Pro SP2 PC, in the program's Trusted Zones.
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> "Dell Boy" <DellBoy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:ECAD9989-F8F9-4DBC-A227-FEF7B90ABC70@microsoft.com...
> I'm an IT technician at a centre for the disabled where most of our machines
> are Win 98SE. We run a simple peer-to-peer network and one of the Win 98SE
> machines acts as our file server (it has a shared folder on it). I've just
> introduced a Win XP Pro SP2 machine on to this network with simple file
> sharing enabled. It can view the files in the share but if you try to save
> anything to the share it generates a "Folder isn't accessible" message. I've
> tried taking off simple file sharing but still get the error message.
>
> Has anyone met this problem before?
>
> (We would like to use all Win XP Pro machines but we just don't have the
> funds to do so at the moment.)
>