Workgroup issue, can see shares, but can`t browse to computer

[Matt]

Hi all, I need to pick your brains again

I have a workgroup with 3 home PC`s on it, 2 XP (Professional SP2) and
one 2000 (Workstation, SP4). One of the machines has about 3 shares on
it, that the other PC`s can see, but recently I added a new share to it,
and went to try and browse to that PC through my network places/view
workgroup PC`s. My PC (its called Matts XP Gaming Box (XP-MAIN) ) shows
up as a PC in the workgroup, but if any of my PC`s try and browse to it,
they instantly get an "access is denied" error message. Even though they
can access its shares without a problem. I have studied my textbooks on
security settings for XP (I`m trying to learn to be a DST myself )
but i`m drawing a blank, can anyone help?

Much appreciated

Matt.

 

[Ron Lowe]

Hi all, I need to pick your brains again

I have a workgroup with 3 home PC`s on it, 2 XP (Professional SP2) and
one 2000 (Workstation, SP4). One of the machines has about 3 shares on
it, that the other PC`s can see, but recently I added a new share to it,
and went to try and browse to that PC through my network places/view
workgroup PC`s. My PC (its called Matts XP Gaming Box (XP-MAIN) ) shows
up as a PC in the workgroup, but if any of my PC`s try and browse to it,
they instantly get an "access is denied" error message. Even though they
can access its shares without a problem. I have studied my textbooks on
security settings for XP (I`m trying to learn to be a DST myself )
but i`m drawing a blank, can anyone help?

Much appreciated

Matt.

Are you using Simple File Sharing on XP-Pro machines?

If so, then what you describe:
( shares accessible, but machine will not enumerate it's shares, error is
'Access Denied' )
sounds like a problem with the RestrictAnonymous setting.

Try this for a fix:

On the machine you are trying to contact, go to:

start | Run | type 'Regedit' in the box.

On the left hand pane, navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\LSA\

In the LSA folder, look in the right-hand pane.
look for the value 'RestrictAnonymous'.

It needs to be zero.
If it is not, double-click it and set it to zero.

( The value of RestrictAnonymousSam can be left at 1. )

Close regedit, and re-boot the server machine.

See if that helps.

 

[Matt]

Are you using Simple File Sharing on XP-Pro machines?

If so, then what you describe:
( shares accessible, but machine will not enumerate it's shares, error is
'Access Denied' )
sounds like a problem with the RestrictAnonymous setting.

Try this for a fix:

On the machine you are trying to contact, go to:

start | Run | type 'Regedit' in the box.

On the left hand pane, navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\LSA\

In the LSA folder, look in the right-hand pane.
look for the value 'RestrictAnonymous'.

It needs to be zero.
If it is not, double-click it and set it to zero.

( The value of RestrictAnonymousSam can be left at 1. )

Close regedit, and re-boot the server machine.

See if that helps.

Problem solved, thanks ever so much!!

 

[Waqar Aziz]

This worked for me;


start | Run | type 'Regedit' in the box.

On the left hand pane, navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\LSA\

In the LSA folder, look in the right-hand pane.
look for the value 'RestrictAnonymous'.

It needs to be zero.
If it is not, double-click it and set it to zero.

( The value of RestrictAnonymousSam can be left at 1. )

Close regedit, and re-boot the server machine.

 

[Guest]

Anyone know why this RestrictAnonymous is set to 1? How come some machines
set it to 0 and work properly, while others do not?