lightlytoasted

Chuck,

Your blog, while very dense and long, turned out to be very useful. It was
quite the task really going though it, I probably spent 6 hours on it.
Anyways, I found my problems by comparing the two registries on the
computers, and something I found in your blog.

1. The value of "TransportBindName" in
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetBT\Parameters] was
empty. The value was supposed to be /Device/. (After fixing this, I was able
to enable NetBIOS over tcpip, and I was also able to run browstat which
showed no problems other than guest authentication, error 5.)

2. I set the value of "restrictanonymous" in [HKLM \System
\CurrentControlSet \Control \Lsa] to 0 as instructed by your blog. Now file
sharing works as it should, as well as with the other xp machines in the
house I was leaving out of the picture.

Something else that was a little confusing in your blog was the bit about
"Node Types". You made it sound like Hybrid could cause problems and
Broadcast was more successful, which very well could be the case. The way
that you listed the location of the key that controls the "Node Type" made it
seem like "DchpNodeType" was a folder under
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetBT\Parameters]
instead of just a DWORD within
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetBT\Parameters].
Also, "DchpNodeType" is missing from
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetBT\Parameters] in
Windows Vista which made it even more ambiguous whether it was a missing
DWORD or another folder.

Here is the behavior that I noticed:
Missing DWORD named "DchpNodeType" : Hybrid Node Type is default
Adding a key named "DchpNodeType" : Vista checks its value on start-up (1
Broadcast, 2 Peer-Peer, 4 Mixed, 8 Hybrid just like you described)

Also a note to others with similar issues, I ended up leaving my node type
as Hybrid and it works perfectly in my home of 2 vista machines and 2 xp
machines.

Thanks Chuck