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For quite some time I have had an old WinXP server, with a couple of shared folders, and a Win7 client, accessing those shares.
It used to work flawlessly up until 2 weeks ago, when there was a black out and no batteries. The WinXP server came back up just fine, but for some reason all network settings on the Win7 client were wrong. I fixed them, but the Win7 client wouldn't mount the winXP shares anymore, but keep asking for some network password. Google told me it is a smb version problem. Indeed, I was able to fix the problem by creating an smb2
entry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters
and setting it to 0.
On Friday, we had to power down the systems again, gracefully this time. We started them up this morning and now the problem is back. The Win7 Client cannot access the WinXP shares. However, the configs on the Win7 client are ok, including the smb2 setting in the registry.
Now googling is very difficult, because it keeps suggesting me smb2 problem-fixes, but this issue should be solved. What else can I do to make Win7 access WinXP shares?
Did help. I even rebooted client AND server. I have 3 other computers, which can access the shares without problems. 1 W2k, 1 WXP and 1 Linux. This Win7 machine however will ask for username and password when I click on the WinXP Server, but none of any usernames I configured on either machine works. Network permissions are set only for "everyone". – user1129682 – 2014-12-23T15:09:19.027
Can it access a share on another machine? What is the result of
net start mrxsmb10
running in cmd.exe - (already started; Can't be started, ...)? – marsh-wiggle – 2014-12-23T15:50:41.7571Doesn't matter anymore. Turns out when you add "microsoft" to the google search string, results become much more interesting. The problem was that the clock on the XP server started to lag behind and, starting from Win7, Windows won't authenticate if the clocks differ too much. – user1129682 – 2014-12-25T21:18:28.670
Sounds like a good answer for your own post :-) – marsh-wiggle – 2014-12-25T21:21:31.650