Re: Logon failure while accessing WinXP Home

Hi again..
Sorry wasnt able to reply earlier cause of Inernet problems.
Your last post has sorted out the problem.
thank you very much for your help.
regards
Saumitra

"Ron Lowe" wrote:

> [ fixed : Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon
> type at
> this computer. ]
>
> >> > Now when i click on the laptop icon in the Network Neighbourhood of the
> >> > desktop, i get the follwoing error.
> >> > \\laptop is not accesiible. You might not have permission to use this
> >> > network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out
> >> > if
> >> > you have access permissions. Access is denied.
>
>
> >> Well, that is actually progress, believe it or not.
> >> [ do stuff ]
>
> > Hi again,
> > Still the problem persists.
> [..]
> > Still the the result was access denied.
> > There is no option for Manage-> Local users and groups
>
>
> Yes, sorry, that command is not available in XP-Home.
> We'll do it from the command line instead.
>
> Can I summarise where we are?
> The machine is pingable, firewall has F+P exception enabled.
> It is XP home, so Simple File Sharing is in force.
> Yet is won't enumerate its shares, failing with error code 5 'Access
> Denied'.
>
> On the laptop, go to a command prompt, and issue the command
>
> net user guest
>
> Look at the output.
> There is a line 'Account Active yes/no'
> Is the Guest account active?
> If not, issue the command:
>
> net user guest /active:yes
>
> Once you are sure the Guest account is active,
> 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.
>
>
> --
> Best Regards
> Ron Lowe
> MVP - Windows Networking
>
>
>
.

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