File Sharing XP PRO

[Greg]

Here is my situation: I have 2 XP PRO machine's (A&B),
and 1 XP Home machine (C). I am having problems with XP
PRO (a). (A) can see all shared folders from (b) & (c),
but nobody can see (a)'s shared folders (or shared
printer). I can see the computer when going to find it on
the network, but when I click on the computer name I get a
message like, "workgroup is not accessible. You might not
have permission to use this network resource.Contact the
administrator of this server to find out if you have
access permissions."

I'm not running a firewall on any of the computers (but am
running it throught a d-link 604 router). Guest accounts
are all turned on. I've seen suggesions on these boards
where you need same account names on each machine. I'm
not convinced of that since machine (a) sees machine (b) &
(c)'s shared folders without same login names.

I've tried uninstalling the MSFT network & MSFT file
sharing and then reinstalling it. No luck. Any
suggestions?

Thanks in advance!
Greg

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Here is my situation: I have 2 XP PRO machine's (A&B),
and 1 XP Home machine (C). I am having problems with XP
PRO (a). (A) can see all shared folders from (b) & (c),
but nobody can see (a)'s shared folders (or shared
printer). I can see the computer when going to find it on
the network, but when I click on the computer name I get a
message like, "workgroup is not accessible. You might not
have permission to use this network resource.Contact the
administrator of this server to find out if you have
access permissions."

I'm not running a firewall on any of the computers (but am
running it throught a d-link 604 router). Guest accounts
are all turned on. I've seen suggesions on these boards
where you need same account names on each machine. I'm
not convinced of that since machine (a) sees machine (b) &
(c)'s shared folders without same login names.

I've tried uninstalling the MSFT network & MSFT file
sharing and then reinstalling it. No luck. Any
suggestions?

Thanks in advance!
Greg

You only need the same account names on each machine when the other
machines are accessing shared disks/folders on XP Pro, and you've
explicitly disabled simple file sharing on XP Pro.

However, I don't think that applies to your setup. If it did, you'd
see a user name / password prompt, not an error message, when trying
to access the problem machine.

These tips should help you get everything working:

1. Use only one protocol for File and Printer Sharing. If the network
needs more than one protocol, unbind File and Printer Sharing from all
but one of them. Details here:

Windows XP Network Protocols
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp/network_protocols.htm

2. Make sure that NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled on all computers.
Details here:

Enable NetBIOS Over TCP/IP (NetBT)
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/troubleshoot/netbt.htm

3. Run "ipconfig /all" on each XP computer and look at the "Node Type"
at the beginning of the output. If it says "Peer-to-Peer" (which
should actually be "Point-to-Point") that's the problem. It means
that the computer only uses a WINS server, which isn't available on a
peer-to-peer network for NetBIOS name resolution.

If that's the case, run the registry editor, open this key:

HLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netbt\Parameters

and delete these values if they're present:

NodeType
DhcpNodeType

Reboot, then try network access again.

If that doesn't fix it, open that registry key again, create a DWORD
value called "NodeType", and set it to 1 for "Broadcast" or 4 for
"Mixed".

For details, see these Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

Default Node Type for Microsoft Clients
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;160177

TCP/IP and NBT Configuration Parameters for Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314053
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Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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