Why do i get access denied on my shared network computer?

Question

one on xp home, one on vista premium

Answer 1

Did you set up permissions and hard drive sharing?

How are you sharing it?

Answer 2

u dont have the permission to access the protocol thats why its said access denied, allow ur self the permission and your matter will be resolve.

Answer 3

ask your Administrator for the network key.

Answer 4

You don't say if this is your network or if it's someone else's and you're sharing it. If the latter, maybe the owner has secured it with an encryption key and hasn't told you.  Ask them.

On the other hand, if the network is yours, it may have been hijacked.  You have one great advantage over the hacker:  You have physical access to the router. Here's what to do:

1. First some prep, because once you start this, you don't want to give the hacker a chance to grab the router back. Find out the router's local IP address (see below for details).

2. Have a computer connected to the router by a LAN port.

3. Have your browser up and the router's IP address in its address window.

4. Find out how to reset the router. Usually, there's a little button or hole on the router that you stick a paperclip wire into and hold it there for about thirty seconds. This should set the router back to its factory defaults. (If this doesn't work, try it again while powering on the router.)

Okay, here we go:

1. Reset the router.

2. Log into the router's admin pages by entering its default local IP address into your browser's address window.

3. Find the router admin page that permits or denies wireless administration (not wireless web access). DISABLE WIRELESS ADMINISTRATION IF IT'S ENABLED AND IMMEDIATELY SAVE THE CHANGE.

Unless they're really on top of things, that should keep them from grabbing the thing away from you again. If it doesn't, repeat the steps (now that you know where the appropriate page is) some other time of day, to catch them off guard.

Now for some steps to keep them from using the connection at all.

1. Find where the SSID (network name) broadcast is enabled. Disable that.

2. Find the router's SSID. Change it from the default. You'll have to define it on all your wireless machines, but the hacker won't know it.

3. Enable WEP or WPA encryption.

4. See if the router has a way of saving its configuration to your hard disk. If so, do it. It's a great way to get back up in a single step.

Now for finding the router's IP address. This should work, but because the router's been hijacked, it may not. If it doesn't, try 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.0, 192.168.1.2. Even better, research it from the router's documentation or the manufacturer's website from either a cabled-in machine, which doesn’t use the WEP key, or a machine on another network).

1. Click on the Start button.

2. Click Run...

3. In the text box, type in

cmd

and press Enter.

4. A black "DOS box" window will pop up. Type into it

ipconfig /all

and press Enter.

5. A bunch of seeming gibberish will fill the screen. On the line next to "Default Gateway" your router's IP address should appear.

Hope that helps.