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Chivas - 26 Oct 2005 22:24 GMT

I have a Win98SE machine connected to an XP Home SP1 machine. They were 1st
networked in March of 2004 and worked happily together for over a year,
sharing an internet connection and a printer connected to the the XP machine
and sharing all files and folders. Neither required a password on bootup.

That happy circumstance ended in June of this year when the hard drive
crashed on my XP machine. After installing a new HDD and reinstalling XP, I
tried to restore the network. The XP machine sees the 98 machine just fine,
has access to files, etc. The 98 machine cannot get access to the XP
machine. It always tells me I need a Network password and says " Resource:
\\computername\IPC$". I also cannot use the printer. That box says
"Resource: \\computername\printername".

Each computer can ping the other by IP address and by name. I can see the
network from the 98 machine but cannot access the XP machine. The hardware
is fine and works well. The problem, I've been told elsewhere, is that the
XP won't give permission to the 98 for access. I can't find figure out how
to change this, and the advice I get everywhere doesn't work.

Hope somebody can help.

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Chuck - 26 Oct 2005 23:23 GMT

>I have a Win98SE machine connected to an XP Home SP1 machine. They were 1st
>networked in March of 2004 and worked happily together for over a year,
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>
>Hope somebody can help.

Is the Guest account on the Windows XP computer properly activated?
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#Help>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#Help

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Chivas - 27 Oct 2005 07:04 GMT

There is a guest account when I look at User Accounts in Control Panel. I
don't know what "properly activated" means, though. As I understand it this
is what a network connects through by default --- except in my case, it
doesn't.

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Chuck - 27 Oct 2005 07:39 GMT

>There is a guest account when I look at User Accounts in Control Panel. I
>don't know what "properly activated" means, though. As I understand it this
>is what a network connects through by default --- except in my case, it
>doesn't.

Please don't expect anything by default, always see for yourself. Read the
article that I provided in the link above.

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Chivas - 27 Oct 2005 21:21 GMT

Chuck,

I read your article, did the "userpasswrods2" to reset my passwords to
blank. That didn't help. I tried deleting the .PWL file from the 98 machine
--- no good.

I then used the "net user" command and it executed successfully but didn't
help either.

BTW, I don't have "Computer Management\System Tools\ Local Users and
Groups". I mentioned that to someone else and they seemed amazed by that.

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Chuck - 27 Oct 2005 21:41 GMT

>Chuck,
>
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
>BTW, I don't have "Computer Management\System Tools\ Local Users and
>Groups". I mentioned that to someone else and they seemed amazed by that.

Can you login as an administrator on the server (Windows XP computer)?

You did run "net user" / "userpasswords2" on the server? Run "net user guest"
and make sure that it shows Guest is active, and a member of "Guests".

If that's not it, check for misconfigured / overlooked firewalls, for registry
setting restrictanonymous, and for LSP / Winsock corruption.
Misconfigured / overlooked firewalls:
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/your-personal-firewall-can-either-help.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/your-personal-firewall-can-either-help.html
Registry setting restrictanonymous:
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/07/restrictanonymous-and-your-server.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/07/restrictanonymous-and-your-server.html
LSP / Winsock corruption:
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/problems-with-lsp-winsock-layer-in.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/problems-with-lsp-winsock-layer-in.html

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Chivas - 31 Oct 2005 20:55 GMT

Chuck,

Yes, I can login as administrator on the XP computer. I ran both "net User"
and userpasswords2" --- but when I ran the latter and deleted my password the
system would not let me back in as administrator, so I had to restore the
password.

I also ran "net user Guest" and it shows Guest is active and a member of
"Guests".

There are no firewalls on my system except those built into XP. The network
firewall is off, the Internet firewall is on, but shutting it off makes no
difference.

I did check the registry setting and changed it to "0", download and ran
"WinsockxpFix" and it reported no errors but told me to reboot. When I
clicked OK it said it wasn't done yet then told me there was an "error 53".

Among other fun things, my Win98 computer can no longer see the XP computer
on the network, let alone connect to it, and I no longer have Internet
Connection Sharing.

All this hassle from reinstalling XP? Really? That's outrageous!

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