Re: Cannot Get Any Peer to Peer Non-Domain Networking to Work
- From: "Steve Winograd [MVP]" <bc070521m@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:52:35 -0600
In article <MKKdnWfQ77hgDXDbnZ2dnUVZ_q6hnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Will"
<westes-usc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am having problems getting Windows XP client A to use a share on Windows
XP server B. I have read through the excellent knowledgebase 103390:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/103390
and that gives a lot of clues about the algorithm Microsoft is using to
establish SMB connections, but I'm still not able to get it to work.
Some background tasks I have performed so far:
1) I create a common local user account foo on both computers A and B, with
identical password
2) I do not have either computer in a domain. I did put them in the same
workgroup.
3) In desperation, I enabled the Guest account on computer B since that
account appears to offer some alternative anonymous SMB capability when
authentication fails.
I have tried issuing these commands from the client computer A:, and all of
them are failing with the 1326 authentication failure message:
net use t: \\computer-b\c$
net use t: \\computer-b\c$ /user:foo
The first command prompts for a user account and I supply foo, but after
supplying password I still get 1326. The second command prompts for
password and then gives the 1326.
Knowledgebase 103390 makes clear that the prompts for userid may be a "Fake"
thrown by Windows to prevent a hacker from reverse engineering security on
the target. Unfortunately, it's also preventing me from getting into my
own computer.
Any advice on how to make this most basic peer to peer networking work is
appreciated. I probably just need to change the value of a few registry
keys set to higher security settings, but I would like to get this to work
with the maximum possible security possible for peer to peer networking. I
would strongly like to forbid anonymous browsing and would like it to work
with a specific user account.
Please reply to this message in the news group (not by E-mail) with
more information to help other people understand the problem:
1. Does computer B run Windows XP Home Edition? Home Edition doesn't
create administrative shares such as C$. You would have to manually
create that share.
2. If computer B runs Windows XP Professional, is simple file sharing
enabled or disabled?
3. How did you enable the Guest account on computer B? The Guest
account setting in Control Panel > User Accounts has nothing to do
with networking -- it determines whether you can log on as Guest at
computer B's local keyboard.
4. What happens when you run this command on computer A?
net view \\computer-b
5. What happens when you type this in the Start > Run box on computer
A?
\\computer-b
6. If #5 shows a list of computer B's shared folders, what happens if
you click one of them?
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Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)
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