Fill error -50 Can't import over network using new account

Question

login as admin and can import music from my PC over wireless net (I just tried it). I set up a new account which is also administrator. As far as I can tell the two accounts are identical. I am leaving the files in their original location and not copying them. Tried importing but i get unknown file error -50. When attempting this on new account, prompts are slightly different, tho. It doesn't prompt me to select from available shares like in original admin account, but i can select network and then available shares manually. I'm using mp3 encoding. Thanks for any help

Answer 1

Kelly--
Thanks Charlie. tested theory right away. I made
new shared folder right on the root c:/ directory.
Put a song in there with a short name and tried to
import it. Got same error -50. So maybe that's not
it. Any other ideas?
What happens if you don't use iTunes, but just try to copy a file from the Windows share using the Finder? If you still can't copy from the one account, then it's a matter of how the Windows file sharing is set up in that account.
That error is a pretty general one, and what you're doing involves so many parts of the OS, from networking to authentication, to QuickTime, that anything you can do to narrow it down will help.
Can you describe in more detail the process you are going through to access the songs on your PC from both accounts? The more detail, the better...
Remember,... i can import these same files from same
folders (so, long filename and path isn't and issue
here) from another account on this mac.
That points to a setting that's different between accounts. Unfortunately, because of that nature of the error, until you can really narrow it down, it's going to be kind of tough to figure out why this error occurs.
charlie