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by kedia990

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I have 2 computers - a laptop running windows xp home and a desktop running windows xp pro. When i try to access the desktop from the laptop, it says access is denied. i have looked for guidelines from several websites and finally found the problem - - the restrictanonymous value in HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa automatically sets itself to 1. i have set it to 0 and tried restarting and repeating the procedure 7 to 8 times. Any fix?

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by toivo talikka

You can set up a special user account in the XP Pro with a password and give that user access to the folders you want to access from the XP Home.

In the XP Home you need to add the logon name and password as stored credentials to the user who is logged in in the XP Home. Go to Control Panel - User Accounts and select that user. On the top left hand side, under Related Tasks, click 'Manage my network passwords'. Enter the username in the format computername\username where 'computername' is the computer name of the Windows XP Pro machine and 'username' is the special user you have set up for this purpose on the XP Pro.

If the above does not do the trick, make sure you have File and Printer Sharing enabled in the Properties of the Local Area Connection, and also, you need to make sure that the XP Pro is using Simple File Sharing: Windows Explorer - Tools - Folder Options - View - quite at the bottom of the list, tick 'Use simple file sharing (Recommended). In this case, you do not have to store the username and password because you will be automatically logged in as Guest.

by kedia990

nope... the method resulted in no success... file sharing is already enabled.... any other method to lock the value of restrictanonymous to 0??

by xiangli_s

I would suggest checking group policy on your Windows XP computer. You want to see any restrictions to anonymous access is denied.

by breven5464

It took me awhile to figure out, but after searching forums endlessly, someone said just delete restrict anonymous from your registry. I had it in the same folder in two instances, and I deleted both of them. I was able to connect with no problems. I also changed the node type from hybrid to unknown. I think that was in the registry too if I remember correctly. I don't know if this is the correct way of doing it or not. I would think that you wouldn't have a problem with removing the restrict anonymous as long as your computer has some sort of firewall.

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