When you share a Folder from a Windows XP machine, you might not able to access to it even you see that computer in it's work group, any time you attempt to access to, you receive a error message like

  • \\[SHARE] is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have  access permissions. 
  • Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer

 

When ran into it, you can consider one of two solution I found from others over Internet. It  might help a lot.

Audit Local Security Settings

  1. On Start Menu>Control Panel>Users, enable Guest user.
  2. Open Local Security Settings by select Start Menu>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Local Security Settings
  3. Navigate to Local Policies>User Rights Assignment
  4. Right-click on Access this computer from the network>Properties>Add Users or Groups, add everyone or any users you want to be able to access the computer from the network > Add Guest user to this if not exists
  5. Right-click on Deny access to this computer from the network>Properties, remove everyone or any users you do NOT want denied to be able to access the computer from the network > Remove Guest user from this if exists

Using Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools (Steve Winograd)

 

  1. Download and install the Windows 2003 Server Resource Kit Tools
    from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=4544 .
  2. Click Start | All Programs | Windows Resource Kit Tools | Command Shell.
  3. Type these lines at the command prompt. The second and third commands are case-sensitive, so type them exactly as shown. Note the "+r" in the second one and the "-r" in the third one:
    • net user guest /active:yes
    • ntrights +r SeNetworkLogonRight -u Guest
    • ntrights -r SeDenyNetworkLogonRight -u Guest

 

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