I have 3 computer all XP Pro with advance sharing. When all computer are within XP, everything works just fine. I recently have been playing around with Bart's Network Boot disk so that I can run Ghost 2003 and save the image to the main PC's (PC1) image storage location which is a share. The problem I'm having is that when I use the Network Boot Disk I can use the net view or net use commands to see the shares. For example: PC1 - Main - 5 shares PC2 - Secondary - 4 shares PC3 - Laptop - 2 shares When running the Network boot with PC 3, I login with the universal name & password that is on all the machines and input all the network information and I receive an IP just fine. I can ping each machine via IP just fine, can't ping by name. When I go to do a net view /workgroup:MyWgName, I get Error 6118: The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available. When I do a net view \\pc1, I get Error 5: Access has been denied and when I do a net view \\pc2 I see only 2 of the 4 shares. Also if I do a net use g: \\pc1\AShareName it prompts me for a password. I've tried every password on the remote machine and none work. If I do a net use g: \\pc2\MissingShareName, it works, but I can't see it when doing a net view \\pc2. This is really weird. How could this be when everything works great when doing everything from within windows, but when using the network boot disk, I either not seeing all the shares or getting denied from the machine itself. All 3 machine are setup the same so I having a hard time finding out what is going on here. If any more information is needed, please ask. I'm stuck and don't know what else to do. Thanks in advance for the help.

The BART cd gives you basic connectivity to a network so you can have files pushed to you to do maintenance and such. It does not give you complete access that you can get in Windows because many of the connection features in Windows such as your SID, DNS, WINS, etc. are not available. Bart is a diagnostic tool, not a windows shell. Larry "Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'" Charlie Brown.

Right, but shouldn't I be allowed to see the shares on the network from the other PC's. For example, I want to have network connectivity and then run ghost 2003 and save the image to a network share. I don't know if the reason for the error is Bart's network disk or some sort of security setting I can't find on the remote computer.