Problem accessing network Folder

My Vista machine has trouble accessing a folder on my file server. This only
started to occur recently. When I try to access the folder, I can see the
files (with grey crosses over the icons), but when I try to open them the
message "\\server\user\thys\my documents\*.doc is not accesible. You might
not have permission to use this network resource..... This file is currently
not available for use on this computer."

I can access other files in other folders on this server.

Reboot does not help.

When I would restore to a previous restore point, it fixed the problem.
Once when I did not wnat to restore futhther, I cancelled the previous
restore, and the problem was also resolved.

I can access the folder from any other PC.

Any suggestions? Please help!

I edited the message:

My Vista machine has trouble accessing a folder on my file server. This only
started to occur recently. When I try to access the folder, I can see the
files (with grey crosses over the icons), but when I try to open them this
message appears: "\\server\user\thys\my documents\*.doc is not accesible.
You might
not have permission to use this network resource..... This file is currently
not available for use on this computer."

I can access other files in other folders on this server.

Reboot does not help.

When I would restore to a previous restore point, it fixed the problem.
Once when I did not want to restore beyond the last restore point, I
cancelled the previous
restore, and the problem was also resolved.

I can access the folder from any other PC.

Any suggestions? Please help!

You may want to try these two mods on the Vista box thats not accessing the
server:

1. Go into Command prompt as Administrator and run
net localgroup "Administrators" "NT Authority\Local Service" /add

2. In regedit, navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Lsa
Modify or create DWORD value named LmCompatibilityLevel
Set value to 1
Exit and Reboot

"Thys" wrote:

> I edited the message:
>
> My Vista machine has trouble accessing a folder on my file server. This only
> started to occur recently. When I try to access the folder, I can see the
> files (with grey crosses over the icons), but when I try to open them this
> message appears: "\\server\user\thys\my documents\*.doc is not accesible.
> You might
> not have permission to use this network resource..... This file is currently
> not available for use on this computer."
>
> I can access other files in other folders on this server.
>
> Reboot does not help.
>
> When I would restore to a previous restore point, it fixed the problem.
> Once when I did not want to restore beyond the last restore point, I
> cancelled the previous
> restore, and the problem was also resolved.
>
> I can access the folder from any other PC.
>
> Any suggestions? Please help!
>

Thanks for your help. the solution didn't work though. Immediately after I
installed the latest update (Office SP1), i was denied access to the folder
again (\\server\users\). in the meantime, on the server, I shared the
subfolder that I really need to work from (\\server\users\thys). I have no
problem in accessing that share now!

I no too little about permissions and shares on how to find out what the
problem is. But at least this works!

Thanks again


"microsvc" wrote:

> You may want to try these two mods on the Vista box thats not accessing the
> server:
>
> 1. Go into Command prompt as Administrator and run
> net localgroup "Administrators" "NT Authority\Local Service" /add
>
> 2. In regedit, navigate to:
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Lsa
> Modify or create DWORD value named LmCompatibilityLevel
> Set value to 1
> Exit and Reboot
>
> "Thys" wrote:
>
> > I edited the message:
> >
> > My Vista machine has trouble accessing a folder on my file server. This only
> > started to occur recently. When I try to access the folder, I can see the
> > files (with grey crosses over the icons), but when I try to open them this
> > message appears: "\\server\user\thys\my documents\*.doc is not accesible.
> > You might
> > not have permission to use this network resource..... This file is currently
> > not available for use on this computer."
> >
> > I can access other files in other folders on this server.
> >
> > Reboot does not help.
> >
> > When I would restore to a previous restore point, it fixed the problem.
> > Once when I did not want to restore beyond the last restore point, I
> > cancelled the previous
> > restore, and the problem was also resolved.
> >
> > I can access the folder from any other PC.
> >
> > Any suggestions? Please help!
> >