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Thread ID: 68807	2006-05-11 11:38:00	Networking win2000/XP PCs	awdw (10388)	Press F1

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454175	2006-05-16 10:33:00	With the guest account on, reboot to reset pc state, then try. Can you see the shares?, or do you not get that far?	SolMiester (139)
454176	2006-05-16 11:39:00	I have rebooted both machines and tried with Nortons on and off and still access denied.I can see the XP PC ok but as soon as I click on it I get access denied. I cannot see any folders at all. Some are definitely shared.	awdw (10388)
454177	2006-05-18 10:56:00	I have rebooted both machines and tried with Nortons on and off and still access denied.I can see the XP PC ok but as soon as I click on it I get access denied. I cannot see any folders at all. Some are definitely shared. I have been searching the online help and tested my connections using Ping and net view. I can ping the XP machine from the 2000 machine, but net view returns an error 5 which apparently means that the account I am trying to logon with from the 2000 machine does not have permission to view shares. I am trying to log on with a username and password that exists on the XP machine but I cannot see where I can even check the settings for the user in XPHome let alone change them. Does anybody know how?	awdw (10388)
454178	2006-05-18 11:16:00	I have a small home network based on a Dynalink wireless router. It works perfectly in all aspects but one. That is I cannot see the files on the XPHome machine from the 2000 machine, I simply get the message " PCname" not accessible, Access Denied. I can get on the net from both machines and the XP machine accesses the 2000 machine fine. I have identical logon names and passwords on both machines. I have Windows firewall turned off and I am running Nortons Internet Security 2006 with most everything on. I have searched high and low for a setting on the XPHome machine which may be stopping access but can find nothing. The XP machine is connected by cable to the router. The 2000 machine has a wireless card. i cannot find any problem with the Router settings either. Can anybody help? Most wireless routers will block broadcast traffic which will stop you from "browsing" the network. Check your wireless config on the router. Have you tried a connection using \\server\share ? Try \\pc name\share name and \\ip address\share	ughnz (8297)
454179	2006-05-18 13:10:00	OK, let get some things straight here: Workgroup settings are redundant, they mean nothing other than an organisation method, you could have different work groups for every room in your house and file and printer sharing will still work. I think your problem may be a bug that I found in XP, the problem may be because you have simple file sharing disabled, the side affect of this is that if you do not enable sharing before switching off simple file sharing, it won't work, check the following: start -> control panel -> folder options -> click on the view tab. scroll to the bottom and put a check mark next to "use simple file sharing (recommended)" click apply and OK. now in explorer, right click on a drive or folder and click "sharing and security" you should see a short message with text in blue, click on the text, next you will see down the bottom, more blue text, click on that, a pop up window will come up, choose the bottom option "just enable file sharing" and click OK. Now you can return to the folder options and disable simple file sharing, it shoudl work fine from now on. If the account on the 2000 machine is the same as on the XP machine and with full admin privledges, you should be able to access the admin shares using the UNC file path which is as follows: \\<machine name>\<drive letter>$ as long as the accounts on both machines are the same, you will not need a guest account.	Deimos (5715)
454180	2006-05-21 09:28:00	Unfortunately this option under Folder Options\View does not seem to exist in XPHome. I do agree that the issue appears to be permission related, see my last comment above.	awdw (10388)
454181	2006-05-21 10:59:00	Yahoo!!! I solved it with all of your help and that from a net site whose location I did not write down (and can't find again) but fortunately I copied the relevant data. For those who are interested I have set out that data below. The short version is that I changed the registry value of RestrictAnonymous from 1 to 0 and that fixed the problem. Thanks Again to all. The RestrictAnonymous reegistry value You have both the following symptoms: * You can ping the computer by IP and by name. * When you type on another computer, replacing computername with the name of the inaccessible computer: net view \\computername you get one of the various "Error 5" error messages, like "System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied" or "Error 5: You do not currently have access to this file. ..." This can be caused by a registry setting named RestrictAnonymous. Go to the computer which you cannot access, start a registry editor and change the following registry value. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet \Control \Lsa Value name: RestrictAnonymous Value type: DWORD If the value is 1 or even 2, change it to 0, reboot and retest. If the problem is solved, leave the value at zero. If not, you can change it back if you like. Check immediately afterwards and again after a reboot, whether the value changes back to non-zero on its own. If that happens, then you have to find the culprit, which can be spyware, a worm, or a badly designed security program. In this case this procedure most likely solved your problem, but then the bad software stepped back in and recreated the problem. In this case you can try to disable running programs and services and retry until you find out which one is responsible. Or you could try to download and run RegMon from www.sysinternals.com. In RegMon set a filter for the registry value in question (or wade through all the registry accesses), set the problem value to zero, then observe which program accesses it and changes it back to 1. Locate that program and uninstall it. And please don't forget to report the bad program here, so we can get a list of offending programs. Background: RestrictAnonymous controls whether null sessions, sessions that work without any authentication and use the permissions of the groups Everyone and NETWORK, are allowed (value 0) or disallowed (value 1). The value 2 is obsolete for Windows XP. Don't mistake this for the value named restrictanonymoussam, which controls null session SAM account name listings.	awdw (10388)
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