I have three computers on a home network, all connected to the internet thru a Netgear router.
1. Windows XP Pro laptop
2. Windows XP home desktop
3. Windows XP home laptop
All of the computers can access the internet, and all of them can ping each other. both of the XP Home machines can see the shared folder on the XP Pro machine. However, the XP Pro machine can't see the shared folder on either Home machine, and the Home machines can't see each other's shared folder either.
for the sake of this question, let's just try to get Computer 1 (XP Pro) to be able to see Computer 2 (XP home) shared folder
When i am on Computer 1 and i go into Network Places, View Workgroup Computers, I can see all of the computers. But when I click on the name of the other Home machine to try to see its shared folder, I get the error:
"Logon Failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer."
I have spent HOURS trying to get this to work. here's some of what I have tried:
- ran virus scans, ad-aware scans, hijackthis scans, and Windows Defender scans to make sure system is clean
- disabled windows firewall on all machines (don't have any other firewalls installed)
- removed anti-virus just to see if it would make a difference
- created user accts with the same name and password on both machines
- placed computers in the same workgroup
- set security permissions to everyone
- set restrictanonymous key in Registry to Allow anonymous users
A couple of curious things I have found:
1. when I first tried to disable the windows firewall, at the top of the window it said "for your security, some settings are controlled by Group Policy". I fixed this by deleting the Windows Firewall Key in the registry and rebooting. it made a new key and then I was able to disable the firewall
2. When i boot Computer 2 (XP Home) into safe mode and go into the shared folder security settings and click Advanced and go to the Owner tab, it shows me two owners to choose from: "Administrator" and "Administrators" It was set to "administrators" and I tried changing it to "administrator"
Please help with any suggestions! remember, BOTH of my XP home machines are doing the same thing and giving the same error message when I try to access their shared folder from a different computer...so chances are that it's not malware...right?
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