Home network will not work...among other things

[Kerrie]

I am running 2 Windows XP SP2 desktops. Computer A is hardwired and Computer
B is wireless. My network consists of both computers, a Linksys wireless
router and a Comcast modem. Computer B can see and access Computer A, and
use Computer A's printer. Computer A can see Computer B only in View
Workgroup Computers. When I try to Open Computer B it says:
//Joes is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network
resource. Contact the adminstrator of this server to find out if you have
access permissions. The network path was not found.

Not sure why I am getting this, as everything used to work just fine. My
file sharing is set on both computers, as well as printer sharing. I have
McAfee, which I have already uninstalled the firewall, and it did not help.
The other thing I noticed, but not sure if related, is when I try to play
AOE3 with friends, I can not connect to them (it times out) but theirs at
least says Connecting, then says Connection Failed when they try to connect
to me. Logic tells me its probably my problem and all of the above is
somehow related.

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

I am running 2 Windows XP SP2 desktops. Computer A is hardwired and Computer
B is wireless. My network consists of both computers, a Linksys wireless
router and a Comcast modem. Computer B can see and access Computer A, and
use Computer A's printer. Computer A can see Computer B only in View
Workgroup Computers. When I try to Open Computer B it says:
//Joes is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network
resource. Contact the adminstrator of this server to find out if you have
access permissions. The network path was not found.

Kerrie,

have a look at http://winhlp.com/wxnet.htm and fill in the form.
That should pinpoint the problem and give you the solution.

Hans-Georg

 

[Kerrie]

I clicked on the link, filled out the form, and tried what it said...which
made things worse, not better. Any other ideas?

 

[Nih]

I had a similar problem and this fixed my problem.

First try this registry setting, go to start > run > regedit. First thing
is click on File > export and save the file somewhere safe, this will back up
your registry. Once this is done navigate in the dropdown tree to the
following

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\LSA

Look for "RestrictAnonymous", double click it and ensure it is set to 0, if
not change it from a 1 to a 0 and close out. Reboot for changes to take
affect

If this does not work go here and download and install the Windows Server
2003 Resource Kit Tools
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=4544

Click on Start >All Programs >Windows Resource Kit Tools >Command Shell
this will launch a black screen, at the prompt type the following exactly as
it is shown, hit enter after each line

ntrights +r SeNetworkLogonRight -u Guest
ntrights -r SeDenyNetworkLogonRight -u Guest
ntrights +r SeNetworkLogonRight -g Everyone
ntrights -r SeDenyNetworkLogonRight -g Everyone

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

I had a similar problem and this fixed my problem.

First try this registry setting, go to start > run > regedit. First thing
is click on File > export and save the file somewhere safe, this will back up
your registry. Once this is done navigate in the dropdown tree to the
following

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\LSA

Look for "RestrictAnonymous", double click it and ensure it is set to 0, if
not change it from a 1 to a 0 and close out. Reboot for changes to take
affect

If this does not work go here and download and install the Windows Server
2003 Resource Kit Tools
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=4544

Click on Start >All Programs >Windows Resource Kit Tools >Command Shell
this will launch a black screen, at the prompt type the following exactly as
it is shown, hit enter after each line

ntrights +r SeNetworkLogonRight -u Guest
ntrights -r SeDenyNetworkLogonRight -u Guest
ntrights +r SeNetworkLogonRight -g Everyone
ntrights -r SeDenyNetworkLogonRight -g Everyone

Thanks, but Kerrie wrote that he has already tried this and it
didn't work or made matters worse. It is part of the advice
produced by http://winhlp.com/wxnet.htm .

Hans-Georg

 

[Rod Gayford]

Hi all

I have the identical problem with a D Link DSL 302G hardwired to the WAN
port of a DSL DI 524 wireless router. The router is connected by a patch
cable (all Blue Cat 5 cable) to an on board LAN on my Desktop. My laptop is
connected by a wireless DWL 630G card. Both computers can access the
internet OK. My desktop is named PC1 and the laptop PC2. Now PC1 can only
see PC1 in the network connections, whilst PC2 can see both PC1 & PC2 but
cannot connect to PC1 or the USB HP printer connected to PC1. Now formerly,
I had a wireless network card in PC1 and the network worked OK. It was only
after I removed the wireless card from PC1 and enabled the on board network
device on PC1 that the problems started. I have tried evrything but I
suspect there may be no way out of this dilema. Any advice would be
appreciated. I have not tried the fix suggested by Nih as I do not want to
exacerbate the problem.

Cheers

Rod Gayford

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

I have the identical problem with a D Link DSL 302G hardwired to the WAN
port of a DSL DI 524 wireless router. The router is connected by a patch
cable (all Blue Cat 5 cable) to an on board LAN on my Desktop. My laptop is
connected by a wireless DWL 630G card. Both computers can access the
internet OK. My desktop is named PC1 and the laptop PC2. Now PC1 can only
see PC1 in the network connections, whilst PC2 can see both PC1 & PC2 but
cannot connect to PC1 or the USB HP printer connected to PC1. Now formerly,
I had a wireless network card in PC1 and the network worked OK. It was only
after I removed the wireless card from PC1 and enabled the on board network
device on PC1 that the problems started. I have tried evrything but I
suspect there may be no way out of this dilema. Any advice would be
appreciated. I have not tried the fix suggested by Nih as I do not want to
exacerbate the problem.

Rod,

what do you get out of http://winhlp.com/wxnet.htm ?

Hans-Georg