Network Share not working through Windows 7 home premium

Hi David and Belle,

I'm having the same problem.  I have tried editing the registry using both the Dword and Qword, after trying one, rebooting and having it fail - removing the edit and then using the other and rebooting again - several times. No luck - no Joy - I even tried a few Fwords and DDwords and it still doesn't connect. 

Actually, that's not quite right.  If I don't have the regedits in there and I bring the system up without a drive mapping, I can map a drive to the server using the \\IP_address\share and it will work.  It will not work with the \\Server_name\Share - but then I don't have a DNS server on the network, but none of the other systems has a problem with naming.  Actually, I have been able to get on the server and install software from it to my clients laptop.  It will work until I reboot. When the system comes up I get  "The system name is in use" message again and nothing I do makes it work. Maybe I could get her to leave her new laptop at the office and never turn it off?

Then I "Disconnect the drive", remake the connection and it will not work at all for a couple of reboots and then  the same things happens over again.  Just in case someone is interested; We have a small workgroup with a 2003 server.  This is the first Windows 7 system (a Dell Studio 1555, P-Dual-Core T4400 @ 2.2.GHz, 4GB RAM, 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium laptop purchased Thursday), all the other workstations are W2kPro with a couple of XP machines.

Anyway I'll check in later - though I think I going to give in and recommend that she purchase W7Pro.

Error Messages - Admin Events:

WLAN AutoConfig service has successfully stopped.Session "Circular Kernel Context Logger" failed to start with the following error: 0xC0000035

Possible Memory Leak. Application (C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k LocalServiceNetworkRestricted) (PID: 1036) has passed a non-NULL pointer to RPC for an [out] parameter marked [allocate(all_nodes)]. [allocate(all_nodes)] parameters are always reallocated; if the original pointer contained the address of valid memory, that memory will be leaked. The call originated on the interface with UUID ({3f31c91e-2545-4b7b-9311-9529e8bffef6}), Method number (20). User Action: Contact your application vendor for an updated version of the application.

The client was unable to validate the following as active DNS server(s) that can service this client. The server(s) may be temporarily unavailable, or may be incorrectly configured. 192.168.50.218

 Warning 4/18/2010 12:13:51 AM Wininit 11 None

Warning 4/18/2010 12:12:55 AM WLAN-AutoConfig 4001 None

Warning 4/18/2010 12:00:56 AM Wininit 11 None

Warning 4/17/2010 11:59:58 PM WLAN-AutoConfig 4001 None

Warning 4/17/2010 11:59:53 PM User Profile Service 1530 None

Warning 4/17/2010 11:41:07 PM Wininit 11 None

Warning 4/17/2010 11:40:12 PM WLAN-AutoConfig 4001 None

Warning 4/17/2010 11:40:06 PM User Profile Service 1530 None

Warning 4/17/2010 10:13:46 PM RPC (Microsoft-Windows-RPC-Events) 11 None

Warning 4/17/2010 10:12:53 PM Wininit 11 None

Warning 4/17/2010 10:11:53 PM WLAN-AutoConfig 4001 None

Warning 4/17/2010 10:11:48 PM User Profile Service 1530 None

Warning 4/17/2010 10:05:39 PM Wininit 11 None

Warning 4/17/2010 10:04:39 PM WLAN-AutoConfig 4001 None

Error 4/17/2010 9:52:00 PM Kernel-EventTracing 2 Session

Error 4/17/2010 9:51:59 PM Kernel-EventTracing 2 Session

Error 4/17/2010 9:51:58 PM Kernel-EventTracing 2 Session

Error 4/17/2010 9:51:57 PM Kernel-EventTracing 2 Session

Error 4/17/2010 9:51:57 PM Kernel-EventTracing 2 Session

Error 4/17/2010 9:51:56 PM Kernel-EventTracing 2 Session

Error 4/17/2010 9:51:55 PM Kernel-EventTracing 2 Session

Error 4/17/2010 9:51:54 PM Kernel-EventTracing 2 Session

Error 4/17/2010 9:51:54 PM Kernel-EventTracing 2 Session

Error 4/17/2010 9:51:53 PM Kernel-EventTracing 2 Session

Error 4/17/2010 9:51:52 PM Kernel-EventTracing 2 Session

Error 4/17/2010 9:51:52 PM Kernel-EventTracing 2 Session

Error 4/17/2010 9:51:51 PM Kernel-EventTracing 2 Session

Error 4/17/2010 9:51:51 PM Kernel-EventTracing 2 Session

Error 4/17/2010 9:51:51 PM Kernel-EventTracing 2 Session

Error 4/17/2010 9:51:50 PM Kernel-EventTracing 2 Session

Error 4/17/2010 9:51:50 PM Kernel-EventTracing 2 Session

Error 4/17/2010 9:51:50 PM Kernel-EventTracing 2 Session

Error 4/17/2010 9:51:50 PM Kernel-EventTracing 2 Session

Error 4/17/2010 9:51:50 PM Kernel-EventTracing 2 Session

Warning 4/17/2010 9:51:32 PM User Profile Service 1530 None

Error 4/17/2010 9:30:00 PM SideBySide 80 None

Error 4/17/2010 9:30:00 PM SideBySide 80 None

Warning 4/17/2010 9:24:58 PM RPC (Microsoft-Windows-RPC-Events) 11 None

Warning 4/17/2010 9:19:52 PM DNS Client Events 1006 None

Warning 4/17/2010 9:07:37 PM Wininit 11 None

Warning 4/17/2010 9:06:38 PM WLAN-AutoConfig 4001 None

Warning 4/17/2010 7:37:34 PM Wininit 11 None

Warning 4/16/2010 8:43:55 PM WLAN-AutoConfig 4001 None

Error 4/16/2010 8:25:19 PM SideBySide 80 None

Error 4/16/2010 8:25:19 PM SideBySide 80 None

Well, I made the registry change that you suggested and I still can't see my XP computer.  If I try to ping it it times out.  However, on the XP side I can ping the Windows 7 computer and I get a response.  But, I do not see it in My Network Places.  The Workgroup names are identical, sharing is enabled, etc.  I just don't get it.  Any other ideas?  Thanks!

I don't think Microsoft thought about connecting to XP and so it just does not work.  however, they insist that you should be able to do it but none of their suggestions seem to work.  I don't think they really care about solving this problem.  Or, perhaps it will have to be solved in another release which they have not figured out yet.  It's very frustrating.  I'm trying to find a workaround for this problem and if I do, I'll post it here.

I have the same issue - I tried the above and it still didn't work....

Any other ideas?