Unable to network two computers Please help

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allenashken

I am having difficulty networking two computers together.
The two computers can see each other using tcp/ip but I
get an error when I try to map one computer's drive to the
other or view the first computer's drive from the second
computer using My Network.

The error message I get is:

"You might not have permission to use this network
resource. Contact the Administrator of this server to find
out if you have access permissions."

The message below this in the box is

"Not enough server storage is available to process this
command"

Of course I have checked all the obvious options. There is
enough hard drive space (over a GB), there is no
restriction on accessing either computer.

Please help.
 
Do you have Norton Antivirus 2002 installed.
Ive just come across the following fix in a similar thread
Let us know if it works for you

Quote from
http://www.devhood.com/messages/message_view-2.aspx?thread_id=70478:

Just had the same problem with an XP Pro upgrade; I couldn't get to the
default admin shares (as admin) from another Win2k box (using net use / map
network drive). I couldn't print to a shared printer from an ME-based
laptop. If I tried to map a drive, the WIN 2k machine kept saying:

"Not enough server storage is available to process this command"

Note that I could connect out from the XP box, and see the shares from other
machines, so this isn't a firewall / connectivity / network setup problem.

Solution:
After a productive session with MS, it turns out that Norton AntiVirus 2002
was the culprit.
Antivirus 2002 adds a registry value that prevents shared access.

Here's what worked for me...

-->CAUTION: YMMV: backup this registry key; create a restore point (XP
pro)<--

You need to edit the registry to fix this. The registry entry is:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameter
s]

You'll see a value called:

IRPstackSize

It will be set to some value between 4 - 12 (in decimal) usually. Edit the
IRPstackSize key and delete the numeric VALUE (not the key).

Now all is well :)
 
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