Windows 7 Network File Sharing Fix
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Thank you for this great modification. I have Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows 7 all trying to talk to each other.
Changing the two 128bit encryption options and the LM & NTLM settings helped in my case.
Description:
Win 7 Professional trying to connect to a Synology 110J through mapped drives.
Previously:
Trying to access a mapped drive (that could not be connected to after reboot) made my system go into a loop
What worked was a link in the “favorites”, but a re-login still was necessary.
Tried to:
Add credentials by hand credential manager.
Set the LM & NTLM (but without the 128 bit encryption.
Note:
I also updated to a newer firmware of the Synology at the same time. Unfortunately I cannot conclude whether both steps were necessary.
Conclusion:
The firmware might be part of the trick, but I cannot care less anymore since the drives stay mapped after reboot.
But…
What I do not understand is that the Win 7 Premium on my EEE-PC did not have any problems like this. It could always connect to the Synology as long as the workgroup was set correctly .
Why on earth my desktop is behaving differently is beyond me. Windows 7 is Windows 7 if you ask me.
Sorry, but none of the above work for me.
I have a fairly new Toshiba 13.3″ laptop running Win 7 Home Premium 64Bit.
I want to ‘see’ the various folders in my Freecom 250G NAS under Explorer > Network > FND (FND being the name given to the drive).
I had no problem with XP Home.
I can map the various folders in Explorer {Folder1 (\\FND) (E:), Folder2 (\\FND) (F:) etc.}. I could do that ‘straight out of the box’ ie. didn’t have to change any registration keys or system defaults. My problem is I can’t see them under Network > FND. If I click on that it comes back with the dreaded Network error 1208.
I’ve got the same network name for all connections and have tried the solution from James above plus the alternative from Dave M (LmCompatibilityLevel value 00000002 instead of 1) and I still can’t ‘see’ the folders under FND in Explorer > Network.
Anybody else still got the problem or is there another ‘magic’ solution for this failure on the part of Microsoft with Win 7 Home Premium?
I have also had trouble using remote desktop to a Microsoft Windows 7 machine. Is there a similar fix for that?
@Yajra
Check out LogMeIn.com. Their service will let you connect and control to up to 5 computers for free that you setup with their service.
This solved a huge problem with my new laptop users running Microsoft Windows 7 and trying to connect to shared folders on both an NT Server and a Windows 2000 server. You have saved my life. Thank you!
Applying these recommendations, I can easily access the shares and view contents of folders on Samba. My problem appears when I want to paste a group of files from SMB share to Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. The behavior is, one file will paste, then the system hangs and no other files pasted until it times out and the message: “Problem accessing the share. Make sure you’re connected to the network and try again” appears. “Try again” has no effect. If I open another Explorer window and point to the share folder where the files to be copied live, the folder reports empty and the process bar sweeps madly. Once I cancel the procedure, I have to use Task Mgr to cancel the Explorer instance because it continues to be stuck.
This behavior began within the previous week. I’m guessing an Microsoft Windows 7 update has taken place within that time period.
This solved us a big big problem. Thanks for taking your time to write and post this very useful information.
Hello and thank you,
I figured if I waited some smart person will post something and the resolution for this sharing issue. I too was excited with Microsoft Windows 7 and then only to get disappointed with the failure to access shares on Microsoft Windows 2000 Server platform. I tried researching to see if anything was published but nothing was until today. I found your link and decided to follow it and all the instructions. Now my access to the Microsoft Windows 2000 shares works! Oh yeah! I didn’t have time to get in to trouble-shooting it because I found a way to live around the problem, and it is called FTP :) This makes my life much easier.
Cheers!
Thank you for writing this article. I was not able to follow your work very far. For example:
This ‘Local Security Settings’ window (Your second image) on the top left side shows the Security Settings | Account Policies | Local Policies |. Click Local Policies and Security Options appears. The right side of that image shows the top line as : Policy – Security Setting. That does not exist in my computer and the almost all the other entries below it are different from mine. Your line below that image is:
‘From here, under the policy browser select and open “Network security:Minimum session security for NTLM SSP (including RPC based) Clients“.’
In the context of the image above, this makes no sense at all to me.
TIA
My laptop is running Windows 7 Home Premium. I can see and read all files on my SuSe Linux Professional 9.0 desktop from Windows but cannot access Windows from Linux machine although the Linux machine can see the Windows 7 machine but is refused access.
I tried your fix but when I search for “Local Security Policy” in Windows 7 it is not found, so I am stuck. Everything displays as in your search screenshot except Local Security Policy. Can you help me bring it up?
What is a “SOL” ?
@Jarvis
Sorry, out of luck!
@Bob
Each edition of Windows 7 is a little bit different. Windows 7 Home Premium doesn’t have the advanced management options that professional does, so you may not be able to use this work around with your current version of Windows 7 Home Premium.
Oh thank your mother for birthing you! I am as thankful to you as I am infuriated at Microsoft for overlooking something this important!
Thanks a lot for your perfect solution.
You rock! This fixed my problem accessing shares on Microsoft Windows 2000.
Thanks.
Hi. Good news. Your solution between Microsoft Windows 7 and a couple of Microsoft Windows 2000 PCs was working perfectly for some time. Bad news is that although Microsoft Windows 2000 can access Microsoft Windows 7, I can no longer see the Microsoft Windows 2000 PCs across the network. I have double checked the security settings. I am not aware of having made any changes to either computer.
Hi. Thanks for useful information, but in my case it didn’t work untill I turned on the guest account in Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional. After doing that, I could connect from Microsoft Windows 7 Professional to shared folders on Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional. I hope that will be useful information for others. Good luck.
Most others have been successful , but I have not yet been successful. I have recently installed Microsoft Windows 7 Professional x64 (64 bit) on a desktop on my Ethernet LAN and gone through all the well documented steps above. However I still get a RPC error message trying to access the print server through a router. I can see the print server but yet get the error message trying to get any further, or when trying to set up the USB HP1200 printer hanging off it. All other computers (Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows 2000 and Ubuntu) have no problems printing. I can access the Microsoft Windows 2000 and Microsoft Windows XP computers from Microsoft Windows Seven (Win 7) and vice versa (and could before the Tanner Williamson modifications) but the critical print server eludes me.
Thank you very much. I have been trying to figure this out on two new laptops for a few weeks now. I did it successfully on one with Microsoft Windows 7 Professional and it worked great.
Unfortunately, I can not access these settings from my wife’s Microsoft Windows 7 Starter; looks like these settings are not user-changeable on the cheaper version. Do you know of a workaround?
@CA1242,
There is a registry tweak you’ll need to enter manually in order to do it. The instructions provided require Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate. I will try and get these registry instructions updated here on the post.