Network access to an XP Pro Share

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Cap Kirk

I am running a small home net (3 Win2K Pro boxes). I recently added a Win XP
Pro box. The net is configured as a workgroup and is peer to peer. Use ICS
and Netbeui (I tried to get rid of Netbeui but had far to many problems with
TPC/IP - I'm not good at it). I can acces all W2K shares from the XP box,
but viceversa is not possible. I disabled the XP SP2 firewall (is not
connected to the Internet), but it did not help.

If I try to login as Administrator from one of the 2K boxes there is a
message saying "Error loggin in" "user has restricted privileges".

Any help will be welcome.

Cap Kirk
 
Well I do not like using multiple networking protocols are it can lead to
complexity of configuration and XP runs perfectly fine with tcp/ip alone.
Having said that if you are using simple file sharing on your other
computers you probably want to use it on the new one also and if you are not
you probably want to disable it on the new computer. You can manage that
setting in Windows Explorer/tools/folder options/view where you can check or
uncheck the last setting for use simple file sharing.

If you are using simple file sharing make sure the guest account is active
on any computer with a share using the command net user guest to verify and
also make sure that "everyone" has share and folder/NTFS permissions for the
share. If you are not using simple file sharing make sure that the new
computer has user accounts that network users can authenticate to in it's
local users configuration. I would also logon as an administrator and use
Event Viewer to check the security log of the computer with the share for
any logon failures at the time of denied share access, the user, and a
reason why. The link below may help. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=308007
 
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