Logon Failure: The used has not been granted the requested logon

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Two computers, one XP home and one XP pro. XP home can see all shares on XP
pro, XP pro gets the login error. Steps I have done to solve this problem,
and the result, are as follows:

- Re-read one of my favorite articles: Q308418

- Home and Pro have shared their root drives. (Yes, i know this is bad. It
is what the customer wants over my strong objection). Each drive is NTFS.

- Home and Pro have file sharing turned on. Pro has "simple file sharing"
turned off. (this doesn't matter for Pro, either way Pro shares files)

- Restarted Home in Safe Mode. Logged on as Administrator. Completely
different sharing options appeared. The 'everyone' group (the only group)
has read, change, and full control selected. So any file on Home should be
able to be seen and modified.

- Home's guest account is turned on.

- Home and Pro Windows Firewall each show an exception for "file and
printer sharing.

The results:
- Home can map any drive on Pro and see/modify any file on Pro.
- Pro cannot see any drive on Home. Mapping a drive by specific name ie
\\melmachine\melsc and with alternate credentials (guest) leads to the same
error:

"Mapped network drive could not be created because the following error has
occurred:
Logon Failure: The used has not been granted the requested logon type at
this computer. Contact your network administrator for assistance.

So, I'm kinda stuck. If you have any suggestions, they would be greatly
appreciated!
 
That indicates that the user account does not have the user right for access
this computer from the network. Users can only access shares on XP Home
computers as guest and you should not try to use any other credentials, just
click on the share in My Network Places and that should work if network
sharing has been enabled in XP Home. If that error message still pops up
then it sounds like the user right for XP Home for access this computer from
the network has somehow been modified. Unlike XP Pro you can not use Local
Security Policy to view user rights but you can download the free program
called Dumpsec from Somarsoft to see the user rights on an XP Home computer
which should show that the everyone group is included in the access this
computer from the network user right and that guest or everyone is not
included in the user right for deny access this computer from the network.
The only way I know how to manage user rights on an XP Home computer is with
the Resource Kit tool called NTRights. --- Steve

http://www.somarsoft.com/ --- Dumpsec
http://www.petri.co.il/download_free_reskit_tools.htm --- link to NTRights
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/279664/EN-US/ --- info on how to use
NTRights and FYI the user right is case sensitive as in SeNetworkLogonRight
for example.
 
"just click on the share... " That is the problem - Home does not show any
shares in My Network Places or under Windows explorer. The logon keeps me
from getting that far.

I will try dumpsec and NTRights and see how far I get.

Thank you for the reply
 
Hmm. Use the command net share on the XP Home computer to see if the shares
that are supposed to be available show and verify that the share you are
trying to access via UNC [which should also work] has everyone permissions
for BOTH the share and for NTFS folder permissions which you will need to
boot into Safe Mode and logon as an administrator in XP Home to see the
security tab for NTFS permissions under security for folder
operties. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308418 --- XP
permissions.
http://www.mcmcse.com/microsoft/guides/ntfs_and_share_permissions.shtml ---
info on share and NTFS permissions which also apply to XP
 
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