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Old September 25th 04, 03:02 AM
Quaoar
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Default Sharing & "Entire Network" ??

Jim wrote:
I have an XP pro system cabled to a wireless router that's cabled to
a cable modem.
I have an XP home system connected to the router via wireless.
The XP home system was just added a couple of weeks ago. At that
time I installed a brand new USB wireless adapter to it.
I ran the Network Setup Wizard on the pro system and then on the home
system, setting up a network named 'HOME'. All (Internet access,
printer sharing, folder sharing) worked just fine until a couple of
days ago.
Now - on either system - when I go to My Network Places | Entire
Network | Microsoft Windows Network the system(s) take about 30
seconds to find the 'HOME' network. When I click on that Icon the
systems takes about 45second and then times-out to an error message
"HOME is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this
network. . . . "
I still have Internet access, shared printers still work such, shared
folders are usable if I add then using Add Network Places. However,
In addition to the above mentioned 'Entire Network' issue my Shared
Documents folder(s) refuse to be added as Network Places.

Windows firewalls are disabled on both boxes. At the suggestion of
another newsgroup I added identically named user admin accounts to
both systems. (I was told this is "required" - but it was not
required back when the above items were working)

The solution to this is not critical since I do have print sharing
and do have 'regular' folder sharing.

Up until a few days ago I could just click on my "HOME" network Icon
and the entire shared network was visable. Not now!

Any help/suggestions is appreciated.


OK. Having had this problem in every SP2 install I have done, in which
none of the firewalls were SP2 compatible; toggling the "I'll manage the
firewall" setting in the Security Center, then additionally disabling
the Security Center Service (what good is it if I manage security) and
disabling the Internet Connection Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing
Service (I don't share and don't use the firewall), my network could not
be found with the typical "you are not authorized to view the network"
Re-enabling both the Security Center Service and the ICF/ICS Service
magically restored access to the network - although shared printers had
always been available.

In addition to this, again with a firewall not SP2 Compatible, with the
default set of services still running, I had no internet connection on
any of these SP2 installs. I believe that this is caused by SP2 locking
down all ports and protocols with no SP2 compatible firewall, making
internet connnection impossible. Enabling TCP/IP filtering of the
connnection and selecting Permit All for all ports and protocols solved
this problem.



Q


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