NBTSTAT Problems

[Matthew Carter]

I need to be able to run 'nbtstat -R' as a user on Windows
XP Professional. All I get, when logged in as a user
is, "Failed to access NetBT driver -- NetBT may not be
loaded".

This command works fine for users on Windows 2000 and
Windows NT, but only seems to work on XP when logged in as
Administrator, which will not do in this case.

Does anybody have any good ideas on how to solve this
problem? It is very important, as I have this running in
user's login scripts, and it is currently not working.

 

[Ron Lowe]

I need to be able to run 'nbtstat -R' as a user on Windows
XP Professional. All I get, when logged in as a user
is, "Failed to access NetBT driver -- NetBT may not be
loaded".

This command works fine for users on Windows 2000 and
Windows NT, but only seems to work on XP when logged in as
Administrator, which will not do in this case.

Does anybody have any good ideas on how to solve this
problem? It is very important, as I have this running in
user's login scripts, and it is currently not working.

That's how it is.
NBTSTAT will throw that error for non-admin users.

Perhaps you can achieve the desired result without using this in a login
script ?
Why do you feel it necessary to purge and reload the NetBIOS name cache at
login?

That's an unusual requirement.
Any particular reason?

 

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

quoted from http://www.ChicagoTech.net
Failed to access NetBT driver -- NetBT may not be loaded
causes: 1. No rights to run NBTSTAT.
2. Missing NetBT parameters in registry.
3. NetBIOS is not enabled.


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