XP up-to-date portable cannot be accessed by other network machines

[Arthur Shapiro]

My XP portable can no longer be accessed by two other computers (one Vista, the
other XP). I have
used this portable on the Wireless network for four years.

I tried posting this from the office, and as so frequently happens it never
made it outside the corporate network. Let's try again from home. Any weird
formatting here is due to my ancient newsreader (News Xpress) not liking cut
and paste and going berserk if I try and alter pasted text:

As this has dragged on for a while, without apparent resolution, I'd like to
suggest something although I cannot find the specifics. Perhaps this will jog

someone else's memory.

I had a similar problem several years ago, and with a huge amount of Googling
I stumbled on something - which to repeat I can't dig up for you today - that
solved it on my particular machine.


There was a registry entry, <something>StackSize, where <something> was just
two or three letters if memory serves. It apparently is either absent or is
present with the default value of 15 on most machines.


Using RegEdit to increase the value somewhat (say to twenty) fixed the problem
for me, and I'd been fighting it for an embarrassingly long time.


Can anyone out there spout the registry key to which I refer? Even if this
doesn't solve your problem, it's so trivial to try that it would be a pity not
to do so.

Art

 

[John Wunderlich]

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For sure, I will let you know via email if I ever get a solution.

I am very impressed with your desire to help and teach.

OK. For some reason I can't seem to let this one go.
I have one more idea...

I seem to remember that under Simple File Sharing, there are a couple
of directories that will not change the access rights to allow
"guest" access for sharing. IIRC, these directories are
(1) the root directory containing the active Windows folder (C
(2) The C:\Program Files directory
(3) All directories directly under C:\Documents and Settings, and
(4) the C:\Windows directory.

Is it possible you are trying to share one of the above directories?

I cannot seem to find a Microsoft reference to this, but if one of
these folders is the one you're trying to share, a simple test would
be to create a folder under your "My Documents" folder and see if you
can share that on your network. If you can, this might be your
problem.

The closest reference I can find on this is the following link. Sure
enough, I entered the "calcs c:" command on my Windows XP Home
machine and found that there is no "guest" access to my c: drive root
folder.

<http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/wxpsimsh.html>

Skip down to the "Sharing the Root Directory of a Drive" section...

HTH,
John

 

[John Wunderlich]

(e-mail address removed) (Arthur Shapiro) wrote in

I tried posting this from the office, and as so frequently happens
it never made it outside the corporate network. Let's try again
from home. Any weird formatting here is due to my ancient
newsreader (News Xpress) not liking cut and paste and going
berserk if I try and alter pasted text:

As this has dragged on for a while, without apparent resolution,
I'd like to suggest something although I cannot find the
specifics. Perhaps this will jog

someone else's memory.

I had a similar problem several years ago, and with a huge amount
of Googling I stumbled on something - which to repeat I can't dig
up for you today - that solved it on my particular machine.


There was a registry entry, <something>StackSize, where
<something> was just two or three letters if memory serves. It
apparently is either absent or is present with the default value
of 15 on most machines.


Using RegEdit to increase the value somewhat (say to twenty) fixed
the problem for me, and I'd been fighting it for an embarrassingly
long time.


Can anyone out there spout the registry key to which I refer?
Even if this doesn't solve your problem, it's so trivial to try
that it would be a pity not to do so.

Art

Is this what you are referring to? :

"Description of the IRPStackSize parameter in Windows 2000, in Windows
XP, and in Windows Server 2003"
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/285089>

-- John

 

[EagleOne]

Resolution:

Learned much and not sure of the specific reason but the final answer was to uninstall "File Sharing
& Printers" from Network Connections; rebooting; then reinstalling same.

Thanks so much John as it was your comment that the problem was not Hardware. Then I started
looking at the ACL "list" etc. but the final key was Uninstalled/Install "File Sharing"

Dennis

 

[John Wunderlich]

(e-mail address removed) wrote in

Resolution:

Learned much and not sure of the specific reason but the final
answer was to uninstall "File Sharing & Printers" from Network
Connections; rebooting; then reinstalling same.

Thanks so much John as it was your comment that the problem was
not Hardware. Then I started looking at the ACL "list" etc. but
the final key was Uninstalled/Install "File Sharing"

Dennis

Great! I'm glad you have it fixed.
I'll have to add that to my list of things to try.

-- John