XP Home Networking Nightmare

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Guest

I am going crazy trying to figure this out.

I have two computers one laptop (wireless) & one desktop (directly connected
to Linksys then Motorola cable modem) are using Windows XP Home SP2. I have
had the same issue with two different routers D-Link DI-524 & Linksys WRT54G.
I am currently using the Linksys.

Went through the Network Wizard Setup on both computers and obviously turned
on file sharing.

Both computers can ping each other and access the internet. Windows IP
Config on the desktop has Node Type of Peer-Peer and Hybrid on the laptop.

On the desktop I can see the workgroup MSHOME & can see the Laptop icon but
when I click on it I get the network path was not found error.

When I go to the Laptop, I can't even view the workgroup. I get the message:

Mshome is not acessible. YOu might not have permission to use this network
resource. Contact the administrator of this server to findout if you have
acess permissions.
The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available.

On the Local Network for the desktop it states that I do have a SharedDocs
on Desktop, but that one is not accessible, the network path was not found.

I can also see the desktop printer on the laptop but cannot print.

Both computers have different computer names and the same workgroup name
MSHOME. Also tried with WORKGROUP as the name, this didn't work.

Completely unecrypted the wireless router. Dropped the WEP security. Dropped
the Windows Firewall on both computers. There is no other third party
firewall installed.

Even hardwiring the computers through the Linksys is giving the same errors.

I also tried creating a user on both computerse named generic with the same
password and then sharing a file on each computer. ALL TO NO AVAIL!!

On the desktop, I tried using Ntrights.exe which is a Win2k3 resource kit
because someone mentioned that this helped. After installation, click on:
Start, All Programs, Windows Resource Kit Tools, Command Shell

Then enter the following commands. (Attention: they are case sensitive.)

net user guest /active:yes
ntrights +r SeNetworkLogonRight -u Guest
ntrights -r SeDenyNetworkLogonRight -u Guest

The first command enables network access for Guest, the two subsequent ones
change two different policies to allow network access for Guest.

I'm so frustrated by this...I'm willing to try anything (except a complete
format of course).

Another interesting thing is that I can use remote desktop on the wireless
laptop but not on the desktop?

I would be indebted forever to anyone who could help me out!
 
S

Steve Winograd [MVP]

I am going crazy trying to figure this out.

I have two computers one laptop (wireless) & one desktop (directly connected
to Linksys then Motorola cable modem) are using Windows XP Home SP2. I have
had the same issue with two different routers D-Link DI-524 & Linksys WRT54G.
I am currently using the Linksys.

Went through the Network Wizard Setup on both computers and obviously turned
on file sharing.

Both computers can ping each other and access the internet. Windows IP
Config on the desktop has Node Type of Peer-Peer and Hybrid on the laptop.

On the desktop I can see the workgroup MSHOME & can see the Laptop icon but
when I click on it I get the network path was not found error.

When I go to the Laptop, I can't even view the workgroup. I get the message:

Mshome is not acessible. YOu might not have permission to use this network
resource. Contact the administrator of this server to findout if you have
acess permissions.
The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available.

On the Local Network for the desktop it states that I do have a SharedDocs
on Desktop, but that one is not accessible, the network path was not found.

I can also see the desktop printer on the laptop but cannot print.

Both computers have different computer names and the same workgroup name
MSHOME. Also tried with WORKGROUP as the name, this didn't work.

Completely unecrypted the wireless router. Dropped the WEP security. Dropped
the Windows Firewall on both computers. There is no other third party
firewall installed.

Even hardwiring the computers through the Linksys is giving the same errors.

I also tried creating a user on both computerse named generic with the same
password and then sharing a file on each computer. ALL TO NO AVAIL!!

On the desktop, I tried using Ntrights.exe which is a Win2k3 resource kit
because someone mentioned that this helped. After installation, click on:
Start, All Programs, Windows Resource Kit Tools, Command Shell

Then enter the following commands. (Attention: they are case sensitive.)

net user guest /active:yes
ntrights +r SeNetworkLogonRight -u Guest
ntrights -r SeDenyNetworkLogonRight -u Guest

The first command enables network access for Guest, the two subsequent ones
change two different policies to allow network access for Guest.

I'm so frustrated by this...I'm willing to try anything (except a complete
format of course).

Another interesting thing is that I can use remote desktop on the wireless
laptop but not on the desktop?

I would be indebted forever to anyone who could help me out!

The "Peer-to-Peer" node type on the desktop is probably causing all of
the problems. That node type (which is actually "Point-to-Point", but
ipconfig gets it wrong) requires a WINS server for name resolution,
but a peer-to-peer (workgroup) network doesn't have a WINS server.

On the desktop, run the registry editor, open this key:

HLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netbt\Parameters

and delete these values if they're present:

NodeType
DhcpNodeType

Reboot, then try network access again.

If that doesn't fix it, open that registry key again, create a DWORD
value called "NodeType", and set it to 1 for "Broadcast" or 4 for
"Mixed".

For details, see these Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

Default Node Type for Microsoft Clients
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;160177

TCP/IP and NBT Configuration Parameters for Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314053
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group
for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
 
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Guest

I was trying to help Sonbolt get this working for I have four wired PCs and
wireless PC on my network. 3 are different incarnations of XP Professional
and the other 2 are XP Home Edition Sp2(one of them is a wireless laptop). I
had no problems at all with any of my PCs in setting up a network to share
folders and resources using the normal MS networking steps.

Why would Sonbolt run into this problem, while I had no issues?

Thanks for your help and the education...

Cheers, Chaser
 

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