# NT 4.0 sharing question

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 4, 2001, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nt-4-0-sharing-question/60780 "2001-04-04T14:58:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2001, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nt-4-0-sharing-question/60780/1 "2001-04-04T14:58:15Z")

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I’m working on an NT 4.0 machine that’s been a stand alone. Now we’ve acquired a new machine for the geologists that runs Windows 2000. We’d like to share the plotter on my machine.

For whatever reason I can’t seem to share anything on my machine. If I share the plotter, I get a message telling me printer settings could not be saved. If I go to the properties dialog box for a hard drive, the share tab is not there. I’ve connected NT and WFWG machines before without a problem, but I’m stopped for now. I am an Administrator on this machine.

I don’t know if this is relevant or not, but our IT guy was in town a month or so ago and installed the IT folks’ preferred virus protection software, a program called InoculateIT, that requires another software suite from Computer Associates called Unicenter TNG Framework. The CA software appears to be PC management software and I run into bits and pieces of it all over the place.

Anyway, does anybody have any ideas about how I might reacquire the ability to share stuff?