Instructions were followed to the precision of every final letter.
I now recieve a similar Error: Access is denied.
Evidently, Logon works fine now, but Access isn't permitted for some
reason. Let me know if you need me to go into greater detail.
Well, access denied means we've got past the hurdle of the Network Logon
Rights.
Now you just have to set the share and NTFS permissions.
That's the cause of 'Access Denied'.
These should not need adjusting on XP Home, the default permissions should
work.
But some software must be stamping all over them.
-Can I ask if you have run any form of security lockdown software? If so,
what exactly?
Again, the actual tools to check or repair this are not easily available in
XP home.
So you are left with no easy way to fix this mess.
-Can I ask which folder it is you have shared, and are getting Access Denied
from?
The easiest thing to try in the first instance would be to un-share the
folder you have shared, OK your way out, and then go ack in and re-share it.
The Simple File Sharing user interface will probably re-set the share and
NTFS permissions for you.
Let's just check a couple of things are as they should be at this point.
Re-check the guest account is active:
Go to a command line and type the command 'net user guest'.
Check that Simple File Sharing is enabled:
Start | Run | Regedit, and go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
Look at the value of 'forceguest', it should be 1.
If this does not sort out the 'Access Denied', then we need to
manually set the share and NTFS permissions.
You need to interrupt the boot process, ( hold down F8 during boot )
and start up into 'Safe mode with Networking'.
In safe mode, use Windows Explorer to navigate to the folder in question.
R-click the folder, and go to Sharing and Security.
On the Sharing tab, click the Permissions button.
It should contain the 'Everyone' group by itself.
The 'Allow' permissions for Everyone should be either
'Read' for read-only access,or
'Read' AND 'Change' for read / write access.
All the 'Deny' boxes should be un-checked.
That's the share permissions sorted. OK that.
Now on to the NTFS permissions.
( This only applies if the disk is formatted NTFS. )
Go to the Security tab.
In the top box, the groups 'Administrators', 'Everyone', and 'System'
should be listed, along with a user who crested the folder.
If the 'Everyone' group is not present, add it.
Check the 'Everyone' group has the following 'Allow' permissions:
Modify, Read+Execute, List Folder Contents, Read, Write.
None of the 'Deny' boxes should be checked.
Do not click OK yet!
Now, quickly check the permissions on each of the other users and groups.
There should be no 'Deny' permissions anywhere.
There would not normally be any other groups or users listed,
other than the ones I listed above.
If there are, let me know what they are, and what permissions they have.
If you have made any changes to the permissions in here, before you OK out,
click the Advanced button.
Check the box marked 'Replace permission entries on all child objects....'
This will apply the modified permissions to all files and subdirectories
within the shared folder, as well as to the shared folder itself.
OK your way out from here.
That should set the permissions correctly for Simple File Sharing.