Win 2000 and XP network

[BRStinson]

Im try to create a network between 2 PCs here. My computer is runing
windows xp pro sp2 and my roommates PCs is running Windows 2000. I can
access his PC fine from mine but he can not access mine. He can see it
in his network places but when he tries to connect to it he gets "Logon
Failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type" So I
googled around for 2 hours trying to figure this out. Ive tryed
setting the local security policy to User rights assignment and
changing access this computer form the network to add him from "MSHOME"
and add his computer but when I add it and go to "ok" it gives me an
error of "Failed to save local policy database". But when I just add a
local user, like his user account on my PC, it saves fine. Any ideas
at all?

 

[Malke]

Im try to create a network between 2 PCs here. My computer is runing
windows xp pro sp2 and my roommates PCs is running Windows 2000. I
can
access his PC fine from mine but he can not access mine. He can see
it in his network places but when he tries to connect to it he gets
"Logon
Failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type" So I
googled around for 2 hours trying to figure this out. Ive tryed
setting the local security policy to User rights assignment and
changing access this computer form the network to add him from
"MSHOME" and add his computer but when I add it and go to "ok" it
gives me an
error of "Failed to save local policy database". But when I just add
a
local user, like his user account on my PC, it saves fine. Any ideas
at all?

1. On the XP box, disable Simple Sharing (Folder Options>View).
2. On both boxen, create identical user accounts and passwords.
3. Share out desired resources.
4. Make sure that you are only running one firewall (on each machine)
and don't have an extra one like the "Internet Worm Protection"
provided by recent Norton Antivirus and McAfee programs.
5. Make sure all firewalls are configured to allow lan traffic as
trusted.
6. You do not need the same Workgroup name. Authentication is done by
user account/password.

Malke

 

[Chuck]

Im try to create a network between 2 PCs here. My computer is runing
windows xp pro sp2 and my roommates PCs is running Windows 2000. I can
access his PC fine from mine but he can not access mine. He can see it
in his network places but when he tries to connect to it he gets "Logon
Failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type" So I
googled around for 2 hours trying to figure this out. Ive tryed
setting the local security policy to User rights assignment and
changing access this computer form the network to add him from "MSHOME"
and add his computer but when I add it and go to "ok" it gives me an
error of "Failed to save local policy database". But when I just add a
local user, like his user account on my PC, it saves fine. Any ideas
at all?

If your computer is XP Pro, is Simple File Sharing enabled or disabled? If SFS
is disabled, is there a non-Guest account, with identical, non-blank password,
on each computer? If SFS is enabled, is Guest properly activated?
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#Activate>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#Activate
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#Help>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#Help

With XP and a workgroup, don't waste time trying to add an account from another
computer, you have to add and activate the account on the server (computer that
you're trying to access). Network access, against computers in a workgroup, is
by local accounts only.

 

[Stinson]

Ok great, Im going to give this a try when I get home. Thanks for the
quick and detailed responses!