And I firmly say : don't try to attach c$, you will add standard securities and anti-hacking issues, simply try to run \\192.168.1.100\ without the c$.
Also another way is the box "look for a computer", type 192.168.1.100 and you should see the printer. Except if file and priter sharing is not enabled in XP.
And, of course, the $250 is very attractive. However, I'm pretty sure a lot of experienced young guys will be able to simply directly sit down in front of your computer and solve your problem for five times less money. And if I was closer to your door, I would probably have solved this issue in less time than spent typing here.


No need for extra items in order to make things interesting. All of us are interested in knowing how long we will need to guess what really happens, and who will finally get the solution.
By the way, please tell us when you finished reading the MS-Word document, and the things around page 18 suggested by WeaponX. If three people cannont get a Crosoft printer to work, it's really too bad.

This post has been edited by yordan: Mar 1 2006, 09:00 PM

Looks like I will be eating that steak dinner alone this time. Congratulations to myself for figuring out the problems (8 hours later and 78 reboots). I almost lost it when I saw yordan’s reply.



Wow $250, I didn’t think I was that generous. I had a sigh of relief when I saw it was a typo on his part and not mine. I hate to say it but I don’t think anyone even got close to the solution. The problem was about 2 levels beyond the offered solutions. I hope I’m not sounding too nasty, I guess that’s what hours of pounding your head against the desk will do for you. Now without further ado, the solution.

“Network security: LAN Manager authentication level” was set to “Send NTLMv2 response only\refuse LM & NTLM” when is should have been set to “Send LM & NTLM responses”

I most likely did it to myself while messing around with the Windows security settings about 6 months ago when I reformatted. After a reformat I always harden my box by disabling the Guest account, setting restrict anonymous to 2, deleting Everyone from the default file permissions, and about 500 other absolutely necessary items. These are all things that everyone should do or at least look into. I don’t remember changing that particular setting but a comparison with another machine showed that the default is “Send LM & NTLM responses”. Apparently PC2 was not setup to send a NTLMv2 hash and so when the request hit PC1, PC1 simply ignored it. I had suspicions that the problem had something to do with SMB or something in the authentication as everything else worked fine.

This is how you get to this setting. As I said earlier, everyone should at least take a peek at these settings. From the control panel, select Administrative Tools and then Local Security Policy. Many settings can be found here, specifically: Security Settings>Local Policies>Security Options> Network security: LAN Manager authentication level.

Let me know if this helped anyone else, and your comments, or revisions to previous solutions. Maybe next time someone will actually get that steak dinner. Always remember that if I end up asking a computer question you should be assured that it is not the average run of the mill question.

OK, that's the reason why.
I thought that you had the problem immediately after Windows installation. And I thought that everybody did things just like me.
When I come to a brand new set of systems, I
1) format
2) Install Windows
3) get internal PC communcations to work (inside my own network).
4) Install printers, shared folders.
5) test printers, shared folders.
6) Install antivirus
7) install firewall
8) verify that printers and shared folders and telnet and ftp and vnc still work, else re-touch firewall settings
9) configure Internet Explorer (namely default gateway and proxy).
10) Download Microsoft latest updates.
11) harden the box like you suggest.
12) re-test everything.

So, when I saw your post, I thought that you were at step 4. And you were at step 12. That's why I did not really understand what you did.
So, I must correct everything.
If I really came to your home in order to correct this printer thing, it would have lasted far more that five minutes because I would have had to backup your system disk to DVD, and redo steps 1 to 4, which would have lasted at least one hour.

And, yes, sorry, you said And I have seen 250 because you were explaining that you wanted to make the things interesting, and I know very few places where two people can have a nice dinner for $25.

Nevertheless, we are happy to see that everything works fine now on your two computers. And, yes, you can be proud because you found the solution by yourself, (almost) without needing help.

I have to absloutly disagree, you can go to Steak Out and have the best steak dinner all for under $25. Yea sorry for sounding nasty last night, it was a case of lack of sleep. I really didn't want to reformat as I have everything the way I want it and it is alway a pain to set everything back up, esp. all the application settings. It would have taken longer to get everything back up then it took to find the problem. Thanks again for your help.

You definitely earned that steak, and I can't say I was anywhere near that. But I definitely learned something new from you.

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Isn't this a X1 1-way language sharing problem ?

I thought so too, glad I don't have to same problem he has

This could also be a full politeness language problem.