XP-SP2 Pro cannot map or see drives on XP-SP2 Home

[Chuck]

When it says it could not connect to registry... the local registry on
Limuru or the remote registry on Nairobi ? Hmm... this sounds concrete.
Permissions problem on the registry ?

-Ric

Ric,

The 1005 error is from Limuru trying to connect to the registry on Nairobi. I
think its another Lsa value issue (sibling of restrictanonymous).

Nice munge. Looks like it has legal structure, at least my news client doesn't
choke on it.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

 

[Chuck]

Chuck, let me know when you are going to call it a night. I have no idea
what part of the world you are in. I'm in Marin, just north of San
Francisco.

I would really like to get to the bottom of this and resolve it, even if we
have to pick up tomorrow. Your call on time.

Thanks. -Ric

Ric,

Martinez, just east of SF. Within driving distance of Marin. I drive thru
Marin to Muir Beach a dozen times or so / year.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

 

[Chuck]

Yes, I was getting 1005 errors in the Net View running from Limuru when
trying to view Nairobi by name or ip and even when trying to view Limuru by
ip. View of Limuru by name worked as seen below.

Here is the Net View stuff:
==================
Net View run from Limuru:
----------------------------
D:\XP Resource Kit>net view limuru
Shared resources at limuru

Share name Type Used as Comment

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Data (E) Disk
HP1200 Print HP LaserJet 1200 Series PCL
Printer Print Send with j2 Messenger
Printer3 Print Microsoft Office Document Image Writer
Printer5 Print Amyuni PDF Converter
Printer6 Print Acrobat PDFWriter
The command completed with one or more errors.


D:\XP Resource Kit>net view nairobi
System error 1005 has occurred.

The volume does not contain a recognized file system.
Please make sure that all required file system drivers are loaded and that
the v
olume is not corrupted.


D:\XP Resource Kit>net view 192.168.0.2
System error 1005 has occurred.

The volume does not contain a recognized file system.
Please make sure that all required file system drivers are loaded and that
the v
olume is not corrupted.


D:\XP Resource Kit>net view 192.168.0.3
System error 1005 has occurred.

The volume does not contain a recognized file system.
Please make sure that all required file system drivers are loaded and that
the v
olume is not corrupted.


Net View run from Nairobi:
----------------------------
Shared resources at 192.168.0.2

Ric's Desktop

Share name Type Used as Comment

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Data (E) Disk
Downloads (H) Disk Downloaded files
Files (I) Disk Miscellaneous Files
HP1200 Print HP LaserJet 1200 Series PCL
Printer Print Send with j2 Messenger
Printer3 Print Microsoft Office Document Image Writer
Printer5 Print Amyuni PDF Converter
Printer6 Print Acrobat PDFWriter
SharedDocs Disk
The command completed successfully.

Shared resources at 192.168.0.3

Ric's Laptop

Share name Type Used as Comment

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Data (E) Disk
Files (H) Disk
SharedDocs Disk
The command completed successfully.

==============================================

<SNIP>

Ric,

Very interesting. Please rerun ipconfig on both computers and verify that
Limuru is still 192.168.0.2. Why would "net view Limuru" work from Limuru, but
"net view 192.168.0.2" NOT?

And why does "net view 192.168.0.2" from Nairobi show more shares than "net view
Limuru" from Limuru?

As an aside, what is Limuru? I know of Nairobi, is Limuru another African city?

Nairobi is currently the master browser. Let's switch that.

Make sure the browser service is running on Limuru (generally makes more sense
to use a desktop system as the MB). Control Panel - Administrative Tools -
Services. Verify that the Computer Browser, and the TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper,
services both show with Status = Started. Disable the Browser service on
Nairobi. Power both computers down. Then power Limuru up and run browstat.
Then power Nairobi up and run browstat.

I'll spend some time trying to decypher the registry values. I've got a couple
more hours before I call it a night.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

 

[Richard Fink]

Chuck,

Verified that ip's have not changed. Why might Net View work for a named
computer but not its ip ? This is a stretch but possibly when viewed by
name it is being resolved by NetBIOS and when it is trying to view by ip it
is being resolved by TCP/IP, and failing.

Limuru is a small village about 20km from Nairobi in Kenya. The workgroup
name Twiga is Swahili for giraffe. I lived in Kenya for 9 years and ran the
Computer Operations of East African Airways. We had 2 IBM mainframes
running back to back, supporting online reservations, accounting,
engineering, security, inventory, and traffic. Good time.

I'm going to go ahead and go through this process of changing MB's to see
what it brings to light. But in the end, this desktop is to be relegated to
a minor use as I migrate all work over to the laptop. So when all is
working I might move the MB back to the laptop. But lets see what the
change brings though.

I'll do that now.

-Ric

 

[Richard Fink]

Ok, MB is now Limuru. And the registry error (5) is now seen by Nairobi !
At least its a logical change !

Browstat from XP Pro - Limuru:
------------------------------
D:\XP Resource Kit>browstat status

Status for domain TWIGA on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{C895493A-F2E7-4DC4-94C
0-9903B6260D31}
Browsing is active on domain.
Master browser name is: LIMURU
Master browser is running build 2600
1 backup servers retrieved from master LIMURU
\\LIMURU
Unable to retrieve server list from LIMURU: 1005



Browstat from XP Home - Nairobi:
--------------------------------
D:\>browstat status

Status for domain TWIGA on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{5F2E621F-D987-47E8-8CA
0-73F13027D1C1}
Browsing is active on domain.
Master browser name is: LIMURU
Could not open key in registry, error = 5 Unable to determine build
of br
owser master: 5
\\\\LIMURU . Version:05.01 Flags: 51203 NT POTENTIAL MASTER
1 backup servers retrieved from master LIMURU
\\LIMURU
There are 2 servers in domain TWIGA on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{5F2E62
1F-D987-47E8-8CA0-73F13027D1C1}
There are 1 domains in domain TWIGA on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{5F2E62
1F-D987-47E8-8CA0-73F13027D1C1}


1) Nairobi can still map to Limuru drives.
2) Limuru seems willing to expand the workgroup name to list the machine
names.
At that point it will expand its own machine name and display the shared
drives, but
it will not do anything when clicking on Nairobi.

-Ric

 

[Chuck]

Ok, MB is now Limuru. And the registry error (5) is now seen by Nairobi !
At least its a logical change !

Browstat from XP Pro - Limuru:
------------------------------
D:\XP Resource Kit>browstat status

Status for domain TWIGA on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{C895493A-F2E7-4DC4-94C
0-9903B6260D31}
Browsing is active on domain.
Master browser name is: LIMURU
Master browser is running build 2600
1 backup servers retrieved from master LIMURU
\\LIMURU
Unable to retrieve server list from LIMURU: 1005



Browstat from XP Home - Nairobi:
--------------------------------
D:\>browstat status

Status for domain TWIGA on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{5F2E621F-D987-47E8-8CA
0-73F13027D1C1}
Browsing is active on domain.
Master browser name is: LIMURU
Could not open key in registry, error = 5 Unable to determine build
of br
owser master: 5
\\\\LIMURU . Version:05.01 Flags: 51203 NT POTENTIAL MASTER
1 backup servers retrieved from master LIMURU
\\LIMURU
There are 2 servers in domain TWIGA on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{5F2E62
1F-D987-47E8-8CA0-73F13027D1C1}
There are 1 domains in domain TWIGA on transport
\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{5F2E62
1F-D987-47E8-8CA0-73F13027D1C1}


1) Nairobi can still map to Limuru drives.
2) Limuru seems willing to expand the workgroup name to list the machine
names.
At that point it will expand its own machine name and display the shared
drives, but
it will not do anything when clicking on Nairobi.

-Ric

Ric,

Now you have 2 errors. A 1005 by Limuru, and a 5 by Nairobi.

You're describing the behaviour under Explorer, right? How does this correspond
to "net view" results?

You did cold reboot both computers, right?

As far as the master browser choice, it only matters when both computers are on
the network. When only one is in existence, you won't need a browser. Unless
you create logical shares on one computer to itself, as I do, that is. A backup
browser is needed only if you have a minimum of 3 computers.

Whereas sharing with a XP Home computer as a server is fairly simple, there are
a few more things to tweak with XP Pro. So a problem with opening the registry
of Limuru, from Nairobi, gives us other stuff to look at.

This is giving me a headache from thinking. Unless one of us has a brainstorm,
we'll be at this thru tomorrow.

Run "net view" x 4 again, and correlate that to your Explorer observations.

Then start the browser service on Nairobi, and let's see what you get with 2
browsers online. See which is the master (as seen by both computers).

The Microsoft article with the long URL is a long article, but the answer may be
in there.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

Limuru is a small village about 20km from Nairobi in Kenya. The workgroup
name Twiga is Swahili for giraffe. I lived in Kenya for 9 years and ran the
Computer Operations of East African Airways. We had 2 IBM mainframes
running back to back, supporting online reservations, accounting,
engineering, security, inventory, and traffic. Good time.

Salama bwana Richard,

please excuse my late jump into this thread. I've been following
it, but it seemed like an uncommon problem.

Just wanted to ask, without rereading the entire thread, have
you checked the Winsock? Winsock corruption is a common problem
these days.

http://www.michna.com/kb/wxnet.htm contains a method to make the
Winsock visible. Here's the relevant subchapter:
Repair the Winsock

Service Pack 2 adds a new command to repair the Winsock
corruption problem.

netsh winsock reset

Using this command should normally not do any harm, so if you
have unsolvable connection problems or spurious disconnections,
try it. It does remove all nonstandard LSP (Layered Service
Provider) entries from the Winsock catalog, which are usually
adware or spyware entries, but if you happened to have a
legitimate one installed (for example, Palm HotSync Manager), it
would also be removed and would have to be reinstalled.

If you're really curious, you can use the command:

netsh winsock show catalog

before and after resetting the catalog to find out whether any
entries were in fact removed and which ones these were. Another
perhaps more elegant way to get at the same information is to
run

winmsd

and select Components, Network, Protocol. The Layered Service
Providers in the list should be of the MSAFD or RSVP ... service
provider type. All others are likely malevolent and should
disappear after the reset command shown above.
<<<

Another point from an earlier message also woke my curiosity,
namely:

The Routing and Remote Access service terminated with
service-specific error 2 (0x2).

It may be a good idea to check RRAS and actually all related
services to see whether they run. Sometimes a required service
gets disabled or is disabled by mistake.

Sorry if I'm only distracting from some other problem, but after
this thread has grown so long, I fear the effort of re-analyzing
it. If this message turns out to be irrelevant, please ignore
it.

Hans-Georg
http://www.michna.com/kenya2004/

 

[Richard Fink]

Jambo sana ndugu.

Your suggestion is welcomed. I need a new direction to try on this issue.

Your Problem-Solver site is very worthwhile, but I realized a whole day or
more of enjoyment is in store for me to slowly go over your Kenya photos and
stories in your private site area.

But for now, having just run the winsock reset, I'll reboot, and return to
this tomorrow. Thanks for breaking in. Lets chat about Kenya offline.

-Ric

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

Jambo sana ndugu.

Your suggestion is welcomed. I need a new direction to try on this issue.

Your Problem-Solver site is very worthwhile, but I realized a whole day or
more of enjoyment is in store for me to slowly go over your Kenya photos and
stories in your private site area.

But for now, having just run the winsock reset, I'll reboot, and return to
this tomorrow. Thanks for breaking in. Lets chat about Kenya offline.

Ric,

if the Winsock was indeed corrupted, you may have to clean the
computer from spyware or perhaps bad antivirus software that may
have caused this. If not, you have to keep looking for another
cause.

I'm away until Sunday night and may only very occasionally or
not at all be able to come into this newsgroup until then.

Good luck with the computers meanwhile. And I hope you enjoy the
Kenya stories on my web site. -)

Hans-Georg