Networking Hell

[themaster]

Alright.. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.. but I cannot get other XP box's to read simple shares on vista

As in there is no prompts whatsoever XP reports nothing there..

I have done a basic telnet test and only found port 139 open

This is my 2nd or 3rd install of Vista and this problem has re-occurred with this same computer.. the firewall is off.. I can use Terminal Services via the internet (meaning it's possible to connect to it)

I have a Nvidia and a Marvel Yukon onboard Ethernets tried them both no change.. I tried turning on guest accounts.. (the old XP trick) in the list my shared devices I have upwards of like 8 or 9 now.. of course none of them show up via outside..

I have tried multiple XP box's and again it doesn't list.. I have tried pulling up by direct name and by direct IP nothing.. (I use a static internal IP currently the ethernet is the Marvel) Lastly, I can pull up external XP shares with the vista on the box and or boot into my old xp and network fine..

My basic understanding is I do not know the settings to turn it on.. or bring up a login/dialog box (haven't seen one ever) I prefer my shares open (with guest account) usually cause I don't worry about stuff like that on my own network..

[PsyOpWarlord]

Did you look in Control Panel : Network and Sharing Center ... There are options for file sharing there under Sharing and Discovery.

[myshkin]

to enable guest account login for network shares on a vista machine (no user/pass):

control panel - network and sharing center... set password protected sharing to off

to make vista machines play nice in a workgroup with XP or Samba machines, use regedit:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\netbt\Parameters\UseNewSmb = 0

and also type secpol.msc into the start menu and hit enter, browse to:

Local policies - Security options - Network security: LAN manager authentication level

then set it to LM & NTLM - use NTLMv2 session secuirty if negotiated

Assuming all machines are on the same subnet, XP boxes should now be able to access the vista machine's shares. If it still doesn't connect, temporarily disable windows firewall and try again.

It's not only port 139 that needs to be reachable, port 445 for tcp (maybe udp also) must also be open on the vista machine's firewall. :)