File and Print Sharing

[Guest]

After a bit of detective work, I was able to discover
which keys need to be changed in order to enable \
disable file and print sharing on windows XP\2000. I want
to write a group policy in order to turn it off and on on
our network, but when I try to load the policy I get
a "The following keyword is too long" message, which is
understandable, because the data that each key needs to
hold is very long. My question is is there a workaround
for this? Or possibly a different way to enable \ disable
File and Print through the registry? There are at least 9
keys, all with a lot of data that need to be flipped to
enable F and PS on xp (as opposed to the 1 key under 98)
so this seems like a bit of a complicated issue

 

[Kevin Kobb]

I never could find a way to get this to work the way you are asking.
However, if you get a hold of the snetcfg.exe app:

http://www.jsiinc.com/subj/tip4700/rh4705.htm

I used a policy and in the machine startup scripts made a script to
automatically run this to ensure file and print sharing is installed and
enabled.