Network Share not working through Windows 7 home premium

Anonymous

Hello Friends,

I am have an issue with windows 7 home premium, whenever i am trying to connect any other OS like windows serevr 2003/XP from windows 7 home premium then getting a pormpt to put the network credientials, so after entring the same again it's asking seems to be not accepting.

ex: when trying to connect like \Server-A\ABCfolder then getting a prompt but when ever trying RDC is going through , i checked and verified the network sharing setting all seems to be fine.

Here i would like to update that WINDOWS 7 HOME PREMIUM IS ON WORKGROUP AND I AM TRYING TO CONNECT THE MAHCINE WHICH ARE IN DOMAIN.

ANY SUGGESTIONS???

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Anonymous

Thanks for your replies... The server is stand alone in the same workgroup with the other PCs. Anyway that seems to be a problem of windows 7 home since ultimate and professional edition connect properly to win 2000 share using the same user and password which that I am using with win7 home ed. I guess that the windows 7 pc does not send the proper authentication info to the remote pc.

The solution: Registry editing for LAN manager authentication level (in Home edition this can be configured through registry)

How to do it:

1 . Open registry editor ( Start search - regedit)

2 . Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa

3. Create a new DWORD value with the following properties: NAME: LmCompatibilityLevel

VALUE: 1

Restart your PC and try the connection again...

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Anonymous

2010-01-15T21:45:36+00:00

Hi

I had the same issue: windows 7 home premium connecting to a workgroup network server and the following action worked:

1 . Open registry editor ( Start search - regedit)

2 . Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa

3. Create a new DWORD value with the following properties: NAME: LmCompatibilityLevel

VALUE: 1

THANK YOU SO MUCH
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Anonymous

2009-11-24T12:45:15+00:00

Hello Getsor,

I tried you registery thing on one of the WINDOWS 7 home premium and after that i am able to connect to the server which is on the domain.

Thanks
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Anonymous

2009-11-23T16:21:44+00:00

In your first post you mentioned a Workgroup. In this later post you mention a Windows 2000 server so I really don't know if you are on a domain or not. There may be a problem in joining a Windows 2000 server domain; I don't know and that is such an old server OS that I haven't worked on one in a long time. If you don't get an answer here you might want to check on one of the TechNet server forums.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/categories/

I'm sorry I was unable to help you.

MS-MVP - Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
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Anonymous

2009-11-23T15:48:05+00:00

The configuraion is matching your description above... I guess there is somewhat limitation in Windows 7 home because the same thing (connection to share) is working fine from an ultimate version. The event log of the remote machine (windows 2000 server) logs the following: event id 681 : MICROSOFT_AUTHENTICATION_PACKAGE_V1_0 . All the other possible connections between the workgroup shares are working. In addition all workgroup computers are able to connect to windows 7 home.
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