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Software / Networking 2 windows xp
« on: November 09, 2005, 01:56:03 PM »
Another satisfied customer! 
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My problem was that I had a network with a Windows 2000 PC ( A ) and a Windows XP PC ( B ).
- I could access all the shares on A (2k) from B (XP)
- I couldn't see the shares on B (XP) from A (2k) (I got a message saying "not accessible").
- I could see B (XP) in the list of workgroup computers from A
- I couldn't see any computers in the workgroup from B
I finally managed to see the shares on B from A. I went through the following process, mostly by reading suggestions from this forum:
- I applied the "hybrid" NodeType fix to both computers (didn't make any difference)
- I fiddled with XP permissions and disabled Simple File Sharing so that I could specifically add "Guest" to the list of users allowed to access the shared folders (didn't make any difference).
- I changed the XP machine Local Security Policy to allow Guest to access the network, make "everyone" include "anonymous" and allow anonymous enumeration of SAM accounts (didn't make any difference).
- I installed NETBios on the XP machine and yippee! I got a different error message! Well, hey, it's progress of a sort. This time it said that it couldn't log on to the other machine.
- I reenabled Simple File Sharing on XP and fiiiiiiinally...... I saw the shares from Windows 2000.
- To round things off, I undid my Local Security Policy changes so as to keep security as tight as possible, and everything still worked.
What I haven't tried yet is undoing the "hybrid" change to see if it has made any difference.
I still can't see the workgroup computer list from the XP machine, but that doesn't worry me much. I just access the 2K PC via the UNC name directly and set up shortcuts.
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My problem was that I had a network with a Windows 2000 PC ( A ) and a Windows XP PC ( B ).
- I could access all the shares on A (2k) from B (XP)
- I couldn't see the shares on B (XP) from A (2k) (I got a message saying "not accessible").
- I could see B (XP) in the list of workgroup computers from A
- I couldn't see any computers in the workgroup from B
I finally managed to see the shares on B from A. I went through the following process, mostly by reading suggestions from this forum:
- I applied the "hybrid" NodeType fix to both computers (didn't make any difference)
- I fiddled with XP permissions and disabled Simple File Sharing so that I could specifically add "Guest" to the list of users allowed to access the shared folders (didn't make any difference).
- I changed the XP machine Local Security Policy to allow Guest to access the network, make "everyone" include "anonymous" and allow anonymous enumeration of SAM accounts (didn't make any difference).
- I installed NETBios on the XP machine and yippee! I got a different error message! Well, hey, it's progress of a sort. This time it said that it couldn't log on to the other machine.
- I reenabled Simple File Sharing on XP and fiiiiiiinally...... I saw the shares from Windows 2000.
- To round things off, I undid my Local Security Policy changes so as to keep security as tight as possible, and everything still worked.
What I haven't tried yet is undoing the "hybrid" change to see if it has made any difference.
I still can't see the workgroup computer list from the XP machine, but that doesn't worry me much. I just access the 2K PC via the UNC name directly and set up shortcuts.
A huge thank you to everyone who helped with this!
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