I have 2 XP machines on a LAN + several NT and 2k PC's. One of the 2 Servers required rebuilding which are both NT 4.0 servers. Both XP PC’s connected ok to bother servers before the rebuild.! The original PDC died and had to promote the BDC to PDC. The original PDC is now back on but left as the BDC. Either XP box can no further than seeing the BDC server name. They will not get any further. I get the following error: "\\Server\Download is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact Administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. The network path was not found." As above you can see I did manage to create a network place before access stopped. To add to the confusion, I did have a connection for about 30 minutes, and had one of the XP boxes connected to Exchange. All the NT and 2k boxes connect without a problem. Not even a reboot in most cases! Note. I’m not very familiar with XP! I've added the XP box again into the Domain but didn't help. I can ping the server. The login script does run. I can get out via the Router to the Net. I also tried changing the servers over from PDC to BDC etc!! My question. Is this XP or something todo with the new NT 4.0 SPa build ? and how do I fix it quick. Big thanx to any help with this?

It sounds like a permissions issue on the server... Did you add their Domain ID and password to the server share??? try signing onto the XP machine as a Domain admin and mapping the drive.... Access Denied usually ALWAYS goes into the permissions, sometimes and i mean rarley, it goes into firewall settings... try looking at the XP firewall. In the properties of the LAN connection go to the advance tab. This is the firewall setting. it shouldn't be checked if you can access it though. I would double or triple check permissions.... Mike