Home Network Access Permissions

[Guest]

I have connected two computers on a home network. The computers can see each
other but when I try to access A from B or B from A I get the message "\\B 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"

How do I resolve this problem

 

[Malke]

I have connected two computers on a home network. The computers can
see each other but when I try to access A from B or B from A I get the
message "\\B 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"

How do I resolve this problem

This is most commonly caused by a misconfigured firewall. Run the
Network Setup Wizard on both computers, making sure to enable File &
Printer Sharing, and reboot. The only "gotcha" is that this will turn
on the XPSP2 Windows Firewall. If you aren't running a third-party
firewall or have an antivirus with "Internet Worm Protection" (like
Norton 2005/06) which acts as a firewall, then you're fine. If you have
third-party firewall software, configure it to allow the Local Area
Network traffic as trusted. I usually do this with my firewalls with an
IP range. Ex. would be 192.168.1.0-192.168.1.254. Obviously you would
substitute your correct subnet.

Then create shares as desired. XP Home does not permit sharing of users'
home directories (My Documents) or Program Files, but you can share
folders inside those directories. A better choice is to simply use the
Shared Documents folder.

If that doesn't work for you, here is an excellent network
troubleshooter by MVP Hans-Georg Michna. Take the time to go through it
and it will usually pinpoint the problem area(s) -
http://winhlp.com/wxnet.htm

Malke

 

[lcj]

Your windows may have no shareable directory. If you want to access machine
"B", "B" must have at least one shareable directory.

 

[Guest]

Ken,
I had this same problem. If you have home edition, and the info already
given does not help, you can set the guest permissions by following this:

The following steps are dedicated to Windows XP HOME.


If you have win xp home edition, this is the only way to get over the
problem as
the local settings & security policy are not available in Administration
Tools.
As far as I know, user rights policies applies to WinXP Home as well, you
just
don't have a builtin GUI tool to see/change them.

You should be able to set/remove those privileges with the Windows 2003
resource
kit command line tool ntrights.exe.
Ntrights.exe is in the free Win2k3 resource kit:
Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools

<http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=4544>

SAVE TO DESKTOP then RUN after download.

or

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...&displaylang=en

<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b1
8c4790cffd&displaylang=en>

SAVE TO DESKTOP then RUN after download.

The kit will install on WinXP or later.
After installation, click on: Start, All Programs, Windows Resource Kit
Tools,
Command Shell.

Then enter the following commands. (Attention: they are case sensitive.)

net user guest /active:yes

ntrights +r SeNetworkLogonRight -u Guest

ntrights -r SeDenyNetworkLogonRight -u Guest



The first command enables network access for Guest, the two subsequent ones
change
two different policies to allow network access for Guest.

I got this information after trying all else from Microsoft support.

 

[Guest]

Wasted hours trying disabling firewalls etc. Ready to give up but as last
resort went to the Hans-Georg Michna website and tried setting the
RestrictAnonymous Registry parameter to zero (was 1 on both my machines) and
like magic access is no longer denied.

So simple in the end but knowing where to look ? Thanks to everyone for the
suggestions and help

 

[Malke]

Wasted hours trying disabling firewalls etc. Ready to give up but as
last resort went to the Hans-Georg Michna website and tried setting
the RestrictAnonymous Registry parameter to zero (was 1 on both my
machines) and like magic access is no longer denied.

So simple in the end but knowing where to look ? Thanks to everyone
for the suggestions and help

I'm so glad you got it sorted. Thanks for taking the time to update the
thread.

Malke