Re-enabling Network Share Access

Question

I've got a Samba share running on my server for a few friends of mine.

However, my university requires you to run a program on your machine before it is allowed access to anything on the network. One of the things done by this little app is disabling the computers' ability to access any shared folders on the network.

I never got a good chance to really try to fix this on my own machine, as I reformatted, which solved the problem, and am now running Vista, so I can't really play around with any settings myself (Vista has this option easily accessible).

What settings could have been changed to turn off access to network shares?

jmwills · Answer

Go to Network and Sharing Center and there is a series of seven radio button at the bottom of the page.  The second one turns on/off File Sharing.

cmspaz · Answer

Heh, I meant that I'm running Vista and therefore have no means to figure this out myself, as it's a problem on XP, hence, why this is in the XP forum. I'm sorry that wasn't made clear.

jmwills · Answer

That was a question, statement , or manifesto?

cmspaz · Answer

Well, overall, it's still a question of how to re-enable XP's ability to discover and access network shares. If XP has a Network and Sharing center, this is news to me...

jmwills · Answer

Okay, my bad.  You kept mentioning Vista and I got fixated on that.  Unless you know the exact service the app is shutting down you will have to go thry Group Policy and see what has been Enabled.   Why would they want to turn off discovery of Netwrok Sahres?  If you do have the proper credentials to access the share who would care if you could see it or not? Any good SYSAMDIN would make that a hidden Share to begin with.

cmspaz · Answer

I'll look into that.

The reason they turn that off is so that people who leave folders shared don't have anything happen to their boxen. Because even if they're pw protected, script kiddies can do wonders...

jmwills · Answer

No share is password protected.  Shares and Permissions are controlled by Rights and unless you have rights in Active Directory, there is very little chnace of changing that.   The hackers need to be either hired or kicked out of school.

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Re-enabling Network Share Access

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