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Thought I would share my experience with this problem after trying to tackle it for the last 3 hours, all of which could have been time better spent.
XP file sharing failed between two networked machines, where machine 1 with NIS 2009 installed could access machine 2 (without NIS) perfectly, but machine 2 could only see the list of shared folders on machine 1, but upon trying to access it, there's a password prompt. The funny thing is that simple sharing is used, so no password even exists.
Tried disabling simple file sharing, and using usergroups and ACLs, disabling Norton entirely, disabling/enabling Guest accounts, creating new accounts/passwords ... nothing work.
Turns out it is the IRPStackSize issue, as documented here:
Changing the IRPStackSize to (decimal) 15, and reboot did not work for me. Only when changing it to 20 did file sharing go back to normal again (no more false password prompts).
Three fraking hours!
XP file sharing failed between two networked machines, where machine 1 with NIS 2009 installed could access machine 2 (without NIS) perfectly, but machine 2 could only see the list of shared folders on machine 1, but upon trying to access it, there's a password prompt. The funny thing is that simple sharing is used, so no password even exists.
Tried disabling simple file sharing, and using usergroups and ACLs, disabling Norton entirely, disabling/enabling Guest accounts, creating new accounts/passwords ... nothing work.
Turns out it is the IRPStackSize issue, as documented here:
Changing the IRPStackSize to (decimal) 15, and reboot did not work for me. Only when changing it to 20 did file sharing go back to normal again (no more false password prompts).
Three fraking hours!
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