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James Hutchison II
I installed SP2 on my laptop running XP Pro, and ever since I cannot connect
to my XP Home desktop to access the printer and shared directories.
Here is my config:
1 XP Home desktop w/ SP2
1 XP Pro laptop w/ SP2
192.168.50.0 /24 network
Laptop is connected via 802.11B + WPA
Desktop is connected via Cat5e to switch / AP
Here is a list of things I have tried:
1: Installed SP2 on XP Home PC
2: Disabled Windows Firewall on both PCs
3: Successfully pinged from both PCs
4: Checked both PCs for the HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Control/Lsa
"restrictanonymous" dword, which was set to 0 in both cases.
5: Attempted to connect via the "net use" command to which I received a
"Access denied" error.
Note: I am aware of the identical username / password requirement when not
participating in Active Directory Domain. I configured identical names and
passwords on both PCs which did no good when trying "net use". When I gave
"net use" the username and password it received a "bad username / password
error (error 1326). I setup a new user account on the XP home box, verified
the password, and it still would not let me even view the shares.
Here is the weird part. I have a Suse Linux server on my network with Samba
running. I can use Samba's smbclient command to view, connect to, and
transfer files back and forth, WITHOUT a username and password. This leads
me to wonder if SP2 changed the way XP Pro communicates with other XP PCs.
I browsed through the Group Policy msc looking for something, but nothing
jumped out at me that could have been a problem. I'm running out of things
to try... I've searched Google and these newsgroups and not come up with
much.
If anyone out there can make sense of this situation and could shed some
light on this, it would be appreciated.
James Hutchison II
to my XP Home desktop to access the printer and shared directories.
Here is my config:
1 XP Home desktop w/ SP2
1 XP Pro laptop w/ SP2
192.168.50.0 /24 network
Laptop is connected via 802.11B + WPA
Desktop is connected via Cat5e to switch / AP
Here is a list of things I have tried:
1: Installed SP2 on XP Home PC
2: Disabled Windows Firewall on both PCs
3: Successfully pinged from both PCs
4: Checked both PCs for the HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Control/Lsa
"restrictanonymous" dword, which was set to 0 in both cases.
5: Attempted to connect via the "net use" command to which I received a
"Access denied" error.
Note: I am aware of the identical username / password requirement when not
participating in Active Directory Domain. I configured identical names and
passwords on both PCs which did no good when trying "net use". When I gave
"net use" the username and password it received a "bad username / password
error (error 1326). I setup a new user account on the XP home box, verified
the password, and it still would not let me even view the shares.
Here is the weird part. I have a Suse Linux server on my network with Samba
running. I can use Samba's smbclient command to view, connect to, and
transfer files back and forth, WITHOUT a username and password. This leads
me to wonder if SP2 changed the way XP Pro communicates with other XP PCs.
I browsed through the Group Policy msc looking for something, but nothing
jumped out at me that could have been a problem. I'm running out of things
to try... I've searched Google and these newsgroups and not come up with
much.
If anyone out there can make sense of this situation and could shed some
light on this, it would be appreciated.
James Hutchison II