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Bob Whelan
I have a wireless (Hawking router and USB Network Adapter) between XP HOME
SP2 and Media Centre 2005 (i.e. a form of Pro) on a cable modem. I
could see all workgroups on each computer and could access shared files on
Media Centre from XP HOME but not vice versa.
I was getting \\computername is not accessible. You might not have
permission... Access denied.
Everytime I tried to access XP HOME from Media Centre via Workgroups I
would get the access denied message. I could
not see the shares on XP HOME in Network Places.
On the XP HOME machine I went to
Start>run>regedit>HKEY_ LOCAL_
MACHINE>SYSTEM>>CurrentControlSet>Control>Lsa>restrictanonymous (NOT
restrictanonymousam) and it was set at 1. I set it to 0 and I could access
the XP HOME computer from Media Centre and vice versa.
However, when I checked it, restrictanonymous had changed back to 1.
I can sometimes access the files on XP HOME using View Workgroup Computers
and now I can always access them via My Network Places. The 0 or 1 does
not seem to matter now for My Network Places. Not sure about Workgroups.
I turned off System Restore on XP HOME, went into Safe Mode, did a virus
scan, several anti-spyware scans and a Registry Mechanic check with
no problems, changed restrictanonymous back to 0 from 1 again, re-booted and
sure enough restrictanonymous was back to 1. Set as 0 hex
or decimal does not seem to matter (Guess a zero is a zero). It even goes
back to 1 without closing regedit. Not immediately but after typing this
message on
the Media Centre machine.
I seem to be most of the way to satisfaction after about eighty hours of
computer time googling various sites and testing theories.
Any ideas why it changes back to 1? (sometimes without a re-boot). Any
other ideas
about this access problem would be appreciated. It seems to be a fairly
common problem but a bugger to fix!
Bob
SP2 and Media Centre 2005 (i.e. a form of Pro) on a cable modem. I
could see all workgroups on each computer and could access shared files on
Media Centre from XP HOME but not vice versa.
I was getting \\computername is not accessible. You might not have
permission... Access denied.
Everytime I tried to access XP HOME from Media Centre via Workgroups I
would get the access denied message. I could
not see the shares on XP HOME in Network Places.
On the XP HOME machine I went to
Start>run>regedit>HKEY_ LOCAL_
MACHINE>SYSTEM>>CurrentControlSet>Control>Lsa>restrictanonymous (NOT
restrictanonymousam) and it was set at 1. I set it to 0 and I could access
the XP HOME computer from Media Centre and vice versa.
However, when I checked it, restrictanonymous had changed back to 1.
I can sometimes access the files on XP HOME using View Workgroup Computers
and now I can always access them via My Network Places. The 0 or 1 does
not seem to matter now for My Network Places. Not sure about Workgroups.
I turned off System Restore on XP HOME, went into Safe Mode, did a virus
scan, several anti-spyware scans and a Registry Mechanic check with
no problems, changed restrictanonymous back to 0 from 1 again, re-booted and
sure enough restrictanonymous was back to 1. Set as 0 hex
or decimal does not seem to matter (Guess a zero is a zero). It even goes
back to 1 without closing regedit. Not immediately but after typing this
message on
the Media Centre machine.
I seem to be most of the way to satisfaction after about eighty hours of
computer time googling various sites and testing theories.
Any ideas why it changes back to 1? (sometimes without a re-boot). Any
other ideas
about this access problem would be appreciated. It seems to be a fairly
common problem but a bugger to fix!
Bob