Logon Failure

[Guest]

I know there are a few other queries on this sight that seem to be similar
but I have followed them all and I am really struggling.

I have 3 PCs all running XP Home peer to peer networked. Computer C cannot
be accessed by either computer A or B - both get the 'logon failure: the user
has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer' message when
trying to access computer C. Computer C can see the access A & B fine.

File & print sharing are turned on, I have removed all firewall software
and have tried removing all the network components and starting again from
scratch, have renamed the computer, enabled the guest account.

Does anyone have any solutions or suggestions please? I would be really
grateful. Thanks.

 

[Carey Holzman]

On the XP machines, click Start, click Run, type REGEDIT (hit enter)

Go to the following reg key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\LSA

Look for "RestrictAnonymous" and ensure it is set to 0.

Reboot for changes to take affect

Carey

 

[Guest]

Thanks. I have altered this and it hasnt solved the problem.

What else could I try?

Ellen

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

I know there are a few other queries on this sight that seem to be similar
but I have followed them all and I am really struggling.

I have 3 PCs all running XP Home peer to peer networked. Computer C cannot
be accessed by either computer A or B - both get the 'logon failure: the user
has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer' message when
trying to access computer C. Computer C can see the access A & B fine.

File & print sharing are turned on, I have removed all firewall software
and have tried removing all the network components and starting again from
scratch, have renamed the computer, enabled the guest account.

Does anyone have any solutions or suggestions please? I would be really
grateful. Thanks.

Ellen,

I've seen your question many times in news groups, and I've seen many
suggested fixes. However, none of them seem to work on XP Home.
There's a fix for XP Professional (changing local security policies),
but it doesn't apply to XP Home.

I'm trying to duplicate the problem on my XP Home computer by doing
the opposite of the suggested fixes that I've seen, but I haven't been
able to get the problem to occur.

I'll continue researching the problem and will post a message if I
find anything.
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.

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[Carey Holzman]

Try turning off all but two PCs. Try to get these two PCs to see each other
properly, then turn on the third and configure it once that's done.

At this point I'd recommend you unshare everything that is currently shared
on both PCs. Then re-share the C drive of one PC and see you can access that
share from the other PC.

A reboot may be required.

Carey

 

[Guest]

Sorry, I'm not trying to be a "know-it-all" but I am relatively confident
with networking and have already tried all the obvious things. The other two
pc's see each other fine but neither is allowed to access the third pc. I
have tried completely removing all of the network connections on the pc that
wont allow anyone access and re-setting the network up from scratch.

Something new happened today thopugh. I tried to connect to the printer on
this pc and i was asked for a password - something that I have never come
accross before - could this be linked to my problem? Guest user accounts are
'on'.

I hope you can help and appreciate your assistance.

Thanks
Ellen

 

[Carey Holzman]

Please email me so we can work on this one-on-one.

(e-mail address removed)

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Ellen,

I've seen your question many times in news groups, and I've seen many
suggested fixes. However, none of them seem to work on XP Home.
There's a fix for XP Professional (changing local security policies),
but it doesn't apply to XP Home.

I'm trying to duplicate the problem on my XP Home computer by doing
the opposite of the suggested fixes that I've seen, but I haven't been
able to get the problem to occur.

I'll continue researching the problem and will post a message if I
find anything.

I've done a pretty thorough news group search and haven't found a
single case where someone proposed a solution and the person who
reported the problem replied and said that the solution worked.

I've found a way to duplicate the problem:

1. Do a clean installation of XP Home Edition.

2. Enable the Guest account for network access by entering this line
at the command prompt:

net user guest /active:yes

3. Don't run the Network Setup Wizard.

4. Try to access XP Home over the network from another computer.

Running the Network Setup Wizard on XP Home solves the problem in that
case. Please give it a try.

Here are some things that you can do on all of the computers that
might help:

1. Run McAfee AVERT Stinger to search for and remove common viruses
and worms:

http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

2. Check the Event Log for relevant messages about networking and
services.
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group
for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Ellen,

I've seen your question many times in news groups, and I've seen many
suggested fixes. However, none of them seem to work on XP Home.
There's a fix for XP Professional (changing local security policies),
but it doesn't apply to XP Home.

I'm trying to duplicate the problem on my XP Home computer by doing
the opposite of the suggested fixes that I've seen, but I haven't been
able to get the problem to occur.

I'll continue researching the problem and will post a message if I
find anything.

Ellen,

I've found a possible solution, sent to me by MVPs Oli Restorick and
Ron Lowe. It's a bit complicated, but I hope that you'll try it and
post a reply giving the results. On Computer C:

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 to grant network logon
rights to the Guest account. 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

Then try accessing Computer C from another computer on the network.
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group
for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

 

[Guest]

Hi..

I also faced the same problem. The solution for this is configure all the XP
computer's through the Networking Wizard in the Network connections icon in
control panel.

Also type secpol.msc on run (it will open local security policy) click local
polices > security option > Network Access: & select classic: local user
authenticate as themself.

This will solve our problem....Please restart our computer after you finish

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Hi..

I also faced the same problem. The solution for this is configure all the XP
computer's through the Networking Wizard in the Network connections icon in
control panel.

I agree that the first thing to try is running the Network Setup
Wizard. In my experience, it solves many, but not all, cases of the
logon failure.

Also type secpol.msc on run (it will open local security policy) click local
polices > security option > Network Access: & select classic: local user
authenticate as themself.

This will solve our problem....Please restart our computer after you finish

I've also found that running secpol.msc can solve the problem.
However, Ellen has XP Home Edition, and secpol.msc is only available
in XP Professional.

On a computer with XP Professional:

1. Click Start | Run, type "secpol.msc" in the box, and click OK.

2. Click Local Policies.

3. Click User Rights Assignment.

4. Click "Access this computer from the network" and make sure that
the Everyone group is included.

5. Click "Deny access to this computer from the network" and make sure
that the Everyone group is NOT included.
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group
for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.

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[Guest]

Steve,

I tried the Windows 2003 Server Resource Kit Tools solution that you have
suggested and it has solved the problem. Both the other pcs can access the
system.

Thanks a lot for your help - I really do appreciate it.

I think we should let every other poor soul who's struggling know too -
especially that guy who's the network administrator and has to re-format his
systems every time!

Thanks mate. You learn something new every day dont you.

Ellen

 

[Guest]

Carey,

Thanks for your help - please see the post from Steve Winograd below which
has solved the problem.

Thank you

Ellen

 

[Carey Holzman]

That's great! I'm glad to hear you got it working! Thanks for letting us
know!

Carey

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Steve,

I tried the Windows 2003 Server Resource Kit Tools solution that you have
suggested and it has solved the problem. Both the other pcs can access the
system.

Thanks a lot for your help - I really do appreciate it.

I think we should let every other poor soul who's struggling know too -
especially that guy who's the network administrator and has to re-format his
systems every time!

Thanks mate. You learn something new every day dont you.

Ellen

You're welcome, Ellen. I'm glad that we were able to help you solve
the problem. Thanks for reporting the result. I've passed the word
on to Oli and Ron.

Given that there's nothing built into XP Home Edition to grant those
networking permissions (other than running the Network Setup Wizard),
I'd really like to know how those permissions get denied. Can you
think of anything that happened around the time that the problem
started?
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.

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[Guest]

Sorry Steve, nothing that I can report. The PC was running fine on the
network for about 12 months and then my boyfriend decided to re-format it (I
think it had a virus). Once he had reformatted it and re set it up, neither
of the other 2 pcs we have were granted access to it. I have always
suspected it was something that he selected when he was setting it up in the
first place but to be honest I cant think what.

Sorry I cant be of more help.

Ellen

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Sorry Steve, nothing that I can report. The PC was running fine on the
network for about 12 months and then my boyfriend decided to re-format it (I
think it had a virus). Once he had reformatted it and re set it up, neither
of the other 2 pcs we have were granted access to it. I have always
suspected it was something that he selected when he was setting it up in the
first place but to be honest I cant think what.

Sorry I cant be of more help.

Ellen

Right out of the box after being installed, XP Home Edition doesn't
allow networked access from other computers. If they try, it prompts
them for the password for the Guest account.

If you then explicitly enable the Guest account for network access by
running the "net user guest /active:yes" command, the behavior
changes, and XP Home gives the "user has not been granted the
requested logon type at this computer" error message when another
computer tries to access it.

The usual solution is simply to run the Network Setup Wizard, which
fully enables networking.
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group
for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
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