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Last week something strange happened overnight. I have a two computer
network, both running XP Home. Until one day last week all was fine, both
computers could exchange info, files and printers. When I attempted to
access Quickbooks on the other computer one morning, I got a message
informing me that it could not access the company file. Turns out it
couldn't connect to the other computer at all.
Here's the strange part: I can ping the other computer and all 4 packets
are received. The other computer can access files on my computer. When I go
to "My Network Places" and select "View workgroup computers", both computers
show up and I can display all the shared files on my computer, but when I
select the other computer, I get the following message: "Logon failure: the
user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer."
I have verified that guest is enabled on the other computer.

Any ideas?
 
Last week something strange happened overnight. I have a two computer
network, both running XP Home. Until one day last week all was fine, both
computers could exchange info, files and printers. When I attempted to
access Quickbooks on the other computer one morning, I got a message
informing me that it could not access the company file. Turns out it
couldn't connect to the other computer at all.
Here's the strange part: I can ping the other computer and all 4 packets
are received. The other computer can access files on my computer. When I go
to "My Network Places" and select "View workgroup computers", both computers
show up and I can display all the shared files on my computer, but when I
select the other computer, I get the following message: "Logon failure: the
user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer."
I have verified that guest is enabled on the other computer.

Any ideas?
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This problem has come up occasionally in discussion here. We haven't found out
what causes it, but there is a (regrettably labour intensive) solution.

If the computer that can't be accessed runs Windows XP Home:

1. Download and install the Windows 2003 Server Resource Kit Tools from
<http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=4544>.

2. Click Start | All Programs | Windows Resource Kit Tools | Command Shell.

3. Type these lines at the command prompt. The second and third commands are
case-sensitive, so type them exactly as shown. Note the "+r" in the second one,
and the "-r" in the third one:

net user guest /active:yes
ntrights +r SeNetworkLogonRight -u Guest
ntrights -r SeDenyNetworkLogonRight -u Guest

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Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck sonic net.
 
Chuck said:
This problem has come up occasionally in discussion here. We haven't
found out
what causes it, but there is a (regrettably labour intensive) solution.

If the computer that can't be accessed runs Windows XP Home:

1. Download and install the Windows 2003 Server Resource Kit Tools from
<http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=4544>.

2. Click Start | All Programs | Windows Resource Kit Tools | Command
Shell.

3. Type these lines at the command prompt. The second and third commands
are
case-sensitive, so type them exactly as shown. Note the "+r" in the
second one,
and the "-r" in the third one:

net user guest /active:yes
ntrights +r SeNetworkLogonRight -u Guest
ntrights -r SeDenyNetworkLogonRight -u Guest
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Chuck,

To be honest it sounds like his user rights have somehow been changed.
Wouldn't the EASY answer be to just do a system restore to a day BEFORE all
this started on that - or both - machines?

Failing that, if Home he could boot safe mode and check permissions but that
IS more labour intensive I guess.
 
I forgot to mention I tried to restore but that computer would not restore to
ANY date. I don't know if that is a different problem or a related problem.
Anyway, I did the procedure that Chuck recommended and now instead of
the lengthy Logon failure, I only get "Access is denied." I now find that I
can successfully ping the computer name at the command prompt.
 
Chuck,

To be honest it sounds like his user rights have somehow been changed.
Wouldn't the EASY answer be to just do a system restore to a day BEFORE all
this started on that - or both - machines?

Failing that, if Home he could boot safe mode and check permissions but that
IS more labour intensive I guess.
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I think that question has come up a couple times already. I usually try to
avoid using system restore - you never know what other programs or settings will
be changed. System restore is too "all or nothing" for my taste.

With XP Home, Simple File Sharing, and the Guest account, there's not too many
user rights to change. This script is apparently a way to edit the Local
Security Policy, that you can't do under XP Home ("secpol.msc").

--
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck sonic net.
 
Hiya's

I have had this happen before to my home network, something goes silly with
the network settings.

The fix I have found that worked for me was to remove the nic's in both
machines - through the control panel and restart the pc's, then re-setup the
network.

I do not know what causes it, ensure that the subnet mask is the same and
that any firewall ranges are complete.

hope this helps
 
I forgot to mention I tried to restore but that computer would not restore to
ANY date. I don't know if that is a different problem or a related problem.
Anyway, I did the procedure that Chuck recommended and now instead of
the lengthy Logon failure, I only get "Access is denied." I now find that I
can successfully ping the computer name at the command prompt.
Click to expand...

OK, an "Access is denied." message is easier to deal with. Now you just have to
activate the Guest account on both computers. Enable Guest, with Start - Run -
"cmd", then type "net user guest /active:yes" in the command window. Ensure
that the password for Guest is blank, with Start - Run - "control
userpasswords2"; select Guest, click Reset Password, click OK without entering a
new password.

And make double sure there's no firewalls interfering.

With Simple File Sharing, that's all you can do, for authentication /
authorisation.

There are other possible reasons for the message itself, so if the above doesn't
help, provide ipconfig information for each computer, and we'll diagnose the
problem.
Start - Run - "cmd" - Type "ipconfig /all >c:\ipconfig.txt" into the command
window. Open Notepad, make sure that Format - Word Wrap is NOT checked!, open
file c:\ipconfig.txt, copy and paste entire contents into your next post.

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Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck sonic net.
 
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