Re: Networking XP to Win2K

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 20:38:01 -0700, "BethM" <BethM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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>"Chuck" wrote:
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>> If you don't have a WINS server, you can't use WINS. Stick with broadcast
>> (hybrid, unknown, mixed).
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>It's set as mixed on both.
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>> The browser requires anonymous access, so look at registry key
>> [HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa], value restrictanonymous. Set it to
>> "0" on both computers.
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>it is 0 on both machines.
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>I've been through every microsoft support file that I can find that's
>relavent. Still here I sit gimping.
>
>Noticed today that there is no reverse dns when I do a nslookup. Today I
>could see the name of the desktop on the laptop's network neighborhood and
>the shares are showing but when I click on either, it hangs there and times
>out.
>
>Beth

Beth,

OK, let's try diagnosing the problem. Start by posting "browstat status" and
"ipconfig /all" from both computers. Then we'll enumerate the symptoms.

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