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Storage? I am Storage!
I'm a bit fearful that working this one out myself will take some ridiculous amount of time. Maybe someone can tell me where to start looking.
I have two machines, both running Windows 8 Pro and one running XP. Both Win8 machines have Explorer replacements - one uses Explorer++, the other one Xplorer2. When I try to access a folder on M2 across a network share by going computer -> network -> M2 -> SharedDrive -> SomeFolder it kacks out at that last point. Nothing seems to happen but, in fact, Explorer++ is opening in the background, failing to get a read on the folder and and winds up showing some innocuous default folder on the local machine. BUT if I right-click the folder and select "open" or "open in new window" it opens in Explorer and works normally.
Now I have had broadly similar troubles with quite a few other things (both over the network and locally) during the past couple of months while I test out Windows 8 (I skipped both Vista and Win 7 remember) and very often the issue is administrator rights. Edit a few shortcuts, adjust the properties of the actual .exe file I'm using to open whatever it is, and away we go. But not this time.
A quick reverse test gives me different problems, though seemingly related. If I create a share on M1 and try to access it from M2, I can apparently access that normally. I can look around at the files and folders using Xplorer2, can select and copy files to a local drive, BUT I cannot open files on that remote machine. Double-click on a JPG, for example, and PMView shows a blank screen. Hit File->open and (where it is supposed to default to the location of the file last accessed) it opens in Windows/system32 - i.e., it is hitting some damn filesystem security rule and bouncing hard.
Networking never used to be this hard! Every time I solve one problem, another one crops up. I had to spend ages the other week resetting ownership rights on a folder with aTB of data in it just because I'd formatted the drive nd copied files onto it using a different machine. (Which even had the same Windows username and password!)
Anyway, is there a simple way to deal with all this security-mad nonsense? Clearly, all the things I learned to do in the past no longer apply. I just want to be able to access my files over the network in the normal way. Three or four machines, no domain just a plain workgroup, no fancy VPNs or remote access or special user rights: if you have physical access to any one of the machines, you are entitled to copy stuff, delete stuff, whatever you want. How hard can it be?
Not a happy monkey.
I have two machines, both running Windows 8 Pro and one running XP. Both Win8 machines have Explorer replacements - one uses Explorer++, the other one Xplorer2. When I try to access a folder on M2 across a network share by going computer -> network -> M2 -> SharedDrive -> SomeFolder it kacks out at that last point. Nothing seems to happen but, in fact, Explorer++ is opening in the background, failing to get a read on the folder and and winds up showing some innocuous default folder on the local machine. BUT if I right-click the folder and select "open" or "open in new window" it opens in Explorer and works normally.
Now I have had broadly similar troubles with quite a few other things (both over the network and locally) during the past couple of months while I test out Windows 8 (I skipped both Vista and Win 7 remember) and very often the issue is administrator rights. Edit a few shortcuts, adjust the properties of the actual .exe file I'm using to open whatever it is, and away we go. But not this time.
A quick reverse test gives me different problems, though seemingly related. If I create a share on M1 and try to access it from M2, I can apparently access that normally. I can look around at the files and folders using Xplorer2, can select and copy files to a local drive, BUT I cannot open files on that remote machine. Double-click on a JPG, for example, and PMView shows a blank screen. Hit File->open and (where it is supposed to default to the location of the file last accessed) it opens in Windows/system32 - i.e., it is hitting some damn filesystem security rule and bouncing hard.
Networking never used to be this hard! Every time I solve one problem, another one crops up. I had to spend ages the other week resetting ownership rights on a folder with aTB of data in it just because I'd formatted the drive nd copied files onto it using a different machine. (Which even had the same Windows username and password!)
Anyway, is there a simple way to deal with all this security-mad nonsense? Clearly, all the things I learned to do in the past no longer apply. I just want to be able to access my files over the network in the normal way. Three or four machines, no domain just a plain workgroup, no fancy VPNs or remote access or special user rights: if you have physical access to any one of the machines, you are entitled to copy stuff, delete stuff, whatever you want. How hard can it be?
Not a happy monkey.
