How to fix “is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Access is denied.” Network error with accessing XP windows shares
Trying to access a Windows XP host computer over a LAN (local area network) and get into it’s shared folders.
This little turd of an error can be really irritating. It happens when trying to access a shared folder, or any shares, on a remote, but LAN networked, Windows XP computer. After running the Network Setup Wizard on the host computer, and enabling file and printer sharing, it just won’t go away. In Windows XP Professional, you can go into the explorer view settings, and disable Simple File Sharing, which didn’t fix it either.
The fix ended up being a simple registry edit, suggested by Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913628
Here is the process:
To resolve this issue, set the value of the restrictanonymous registry entry to 0. To do this, follow these steps:
- Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
- Locate and then double-click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
- On the right side, double-click restrictanonymous.
- Make sure that the value in the Value data box is set to 0, and then click OK.
- Close Registry Editor.
- Restart the computer.
This worked like a charm more than once for me.
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This post was written by Content Curator on January 16, 2009
