SHARING AN EXTERNAL USB 2.0 DRIVE

[Guest]

I have a Linksys Wireless Router and 2 computers networked... 1 wireless and 1 with an ethernet card. Everything works fine...both computers can share files with no problems. My problem is that I have an external USB 2.0 80 gig drive hooked up as well. The wireless computer can see the shared external drive but when I have the external drive on the wireless computer, the other computer cannot access the external drive. They all show up in "Netwotk Places". My USB flash cards WORK FINE either way as well. Cannot seem to understand why the external drive cannot be accessed from the wireless computer. "ERROR MSG: \\hp\f is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions." "ALSO IS SAYS: Not enough server storage is available to process this command." I am the administrator ... I have XP home edition and I am logged in as admin with all permissions. The external drive works well on both computers without any storage errors!!!. Please help.... Thanks

 

[Ron Lowe]

I have a Linksys Wireless Router and 2 computers networked... 1 wireless

and 1 with an ethernet card. Everything works fine...both computers can
share files with no problems. My problem is that I have an external USB 2.0
80 gig drive hooked up as well. The wireless computer can see the shared
external drive but when I have the external drive on the wireless computer,
the other computer cannot access the external drive. They all show up in
"Netwotk Places". My USB flash cards WORK FINE either way as well. Cannot
seem to understand why the external drive cannot be accessed from the
wireless computer. "ERROR MSG: \\hp\f is not accessible. You might not
have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of
this server to find out if you have access permissions." "ALSO IS SAYS:
Not enough server storage is available to process this command." I am the
administrator ... I have XP home edition and I am logged in as admin with
all permissions. The external drive works well on both computers without
any storage errors!!!. Please help.... Thanks


This error indicates that you are falling foul of the IRPStackSize bug.

The problem is on the machine you are attempting to connect to,
not the machine where you see the error message.

On the computer you are attempting to connect to,
Check the event viewer for an event ID 2011.

Usual fix :
You need to fix a parameter called IRPStackSize

On the computer you are attempting to connect to,
Set the IRPStackSize back to the default (15 ).
Perform the following steps:

1. Start the registry editor (e.g., regedit.exe).
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\
Services\lanmanserver\parameters.
3. Double-click IRPStackSize
(or if this registry setting doesn't exist,create it of
type DWORD and ensure the case is correct).
4. Change the base to decimal, set the value to 15, and click OK.
5. Reboot the computer.

Norton AV is usual suspect for breaking it.

There's a KB article about this, too.

Antivirus Software May Cause Event ID 2011 (Q177078)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;177078

 

[Guest]

Thank you so much Ron... the value was 11 after which I changed it to 15 as per your instructions...AND IT WORKED !!!