possible local policy?

[Guest]

i have an xp machine that is not in a domain (yet) and i am trying to do some
WMI diagnostics on it before i add it tot the domain. I CAN remote desktop
into the machine but i can not map a drive through a GUI or using the net use
command. Firewall is turned off, net bios is enabled through DHCP and all
the other obvious settings are correct. I also can log into the XP machine
and map out to ANYWHERE else on the network. In event viewer it shows me
trying to connect but it says either the admin account doesn't exist or the
password is incorrect.

Also, to clarify more, I am trying to map a drive to the XP machine from ANY
other machine using the XP machine's local administrator account. Being the
machine is not in a domain and no domain users are defined as local
administrator's, using a
domain account would not (and has not) worked.


IDEAS?
Thanks

 

[Steven Umbach]

Verify that simple file sharing is disabled. Use Windows Explorer/tools/folder
options/view and uncheck the last option for use simple file sharing. --- Steve

 

[Guest]

That is the default setting for XP but just to make sure, I checked it,
applied it, and unchecked it, applied it and still no go.

 

[Steven Umbach]

OK. Make sure that the administrator account being used has a password as by
default that is required for SMB network connections. When specifying
credentials using the net user command, etc enter the username as
computername\user instead of just user, and verify that the local administrator
account is enabled which be default it would be. If none of that helps set up a
share that allows everyone group access for share and NTFS permissions to see if
that can be accessed or not with or without simple file sharing to try and
establish if connectivity to any share from any user is at least possible or
not. Use the command net config server to see if the server service is running
properly. The link below shows possible security settings that could cause
potential problems if security settings are not compatible. -- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823659