Sharing

[Charles McCallister]

I'm networking two XP Pro machines via NETBeui protocol.

I manually created the proper user accounts on each machine, shared all
drives on each and set each as full share permissions, unticked the Use
Simple File Sharing box and each machine could see the others drives, etc.

Somehow on one machine I experimented with the Setup Network Connection
wizard and the machines can no longer see each other. I get an access error
dialog box indicating "Logon failure: user account restriction. Possible
reasons are blank passwords not allowed, logon hour restrictions, or a
policy restriction has been enforced."

I'm thinking that the wizard set up a policy restriction of which I am
unaware and would like to know how best to review any policy restrictions to
see which may have been set that is causing my inability of each machine no
longer being able to see the other's shared drives.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks.

Charles

 

[Rob Elder, MVP-Networking]

The wizard does not change policies. Try disabling the firewall. It does
install that.

 

[Eric Cross]

Greetings Charles,

See the following link and see if that helps.

WinXP Pro File Sharing
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/03userpasswords.htm

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Eric

 

[Guest]

Rob

Nope. It was already disabled. I'm thinking it is a NTFS file permissions issue and I know little about this area

----- Rob Elder, MVP-Networking wrote: ----

The wizard does not change policies. Try disabling the firewall. It doe
install that

 

[Eric Cross]

You're welcome Charles. Thanks for report back.


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Eric

Eric,

Right on the money, friend! It was just as I expected, a local security

policy issue. I hate to admit this same problem has plagued me for months
but I finally learned which Policy Security Setting was the culprit, i.e.
Accounts: Limit local account use of blank passwords to console logon only
which defaults to Enabled. Changed it to disabled on both machines and now
my one account with no password assigned is no longer creating the problem.