Re: Stumped!!--How to open up file sharing

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I am looking forward to the reply as I have the same issue on a computer
networked at a small business. I set up the network. About a week ago,
Norton Internet Security 2003 crashed. After uninstalling and reinstalling,
I now cannot see that computer on the network, but it does have Internet
capability. Every time I try and share a folder, it tells me the server
service is not available or something like that. I have checked the file and
print sharing, firewalls and all that, but it still is not working.


Ron Lowe wrote:
>> New information!
>>
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>> main computer. Once again, I must be missing something that should be
>> obvious.
>
>This is consistent with RestrictAnonymous being wrong.
>This will prevent anonymous enumeration of shares, but not access to those
>shares.
>
>So under Simple File Sharing, you will get 'Access Denied' when you try to
>look at the list of shares on the machine, but you can access the shares
>themselves.
>
>Try this for a fix:
>
>On the machine you are trying to contact, ( 'main machine' ) 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.
>
.

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