Re: Networking XP HOME and XP Media Centre
- From: "Jack" <JackMDS@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 11:23:25 -0400
Hi
May be this can Help: http://www.ezlan.net/sharing.html
Jack (MVP-Networking).
"Bob Whelan" <rwhelan@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I have a wireless (Hawking router and USB Network Adapter) between XP HOME
> SP2 and Media Centre 2005 (i.e. a form of Pro) on a cable modem. I
> could see all workgroups on each computer and could access shared files on
> Media Centre from XP HOME but not vice versa.
> I was getting \\computername is not accessible. You might not have
> permission... Access denied.
>
> Everytime I tried to access XP HOME from Media Centre via Workgroups I
> would get the access denied message. I could
> not see the shares on XP HOME in Network Places.
>
> On the XP HOME machine I went to
> Start>run>regedit>HKEY_ LOCAL_
> MACHINE>SYSTEM>>CurrentControlSet>Control>Lsa>restrictanonymous (NOT
> restrictanonymousam) and it was set at 1. I set it to 0 and I could
access
> the XP HOME computer from Media Centre and vice versa.
>
> However, when I checked it, restrictanonymous had changed back to 1.
> I can sometimes access the files on XP HOME using View Workgroup Computers
> and now I can always access them via My Network Places. The 0 or 1 does
> not seem to matter now for My Network Places. Not sure about Workgroups.
>
> I turned off System Restore on XP HOME, went into Safe Mode, did a virus
> scan, several anti-spyware scans and a Registry Mechanic check with
> no problems, changed restrictanonymous back to 0 from 1 again, re-booted
and
> sure enough restrictanonymous was back to 1. Set as 0 hex
> or decimal does not seem to matter (Guess a zero is a zero). It even goes
> back to 1 without closing regedit. Not immediately but after typing this
> message on
> the Media Centre machine.
>
> I seem to be most of the way to satisfaction after about eighty hours of
> computer time googling various sites and testing theories.
> Any ideas why it changes back to 1? (sometimes without a re-boot). Any
> other ideas
> about this access problem would be appreciated. It seems to be a fairly
> common problem but a bugger to fix!
>
> Bob
>
>
.
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