Networking Glitch

[shahani]

Last night I found that the 3 computers on my home network wouldn't connect completely. I have windows XP Professional on all and they are all connected through a router on to a cable modem.

The cable modem/router works well and all three PCs connect to the internet.

Problem occurs when I try and access hard drives on PCs. Can't even map the drives. The error says: "Not enough server storage is available to process this command" when I try and map drives from the explorer interface.

This has never happened before.

In short, the 3 PCs connect to internet but can't see each other's drives as they used to.

I did run the network wizard and the workgroup is called HOME -- I can see the drive letters under My Network places-Micosoft Windows Network-HOME-Drives, but not the folders--gives the error quoted above.

I hope this is not confusing.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,

Shahani

[sm8000]

Are they all using static IPs? And on the same subnet?

[John Prophet]

Did it ever work? Have you changed anything recently? What kind of router is it?

JP

[shahani]

Worked perfectly till last nite. D-Link router. Same subnet. static Ips.

[John Prophet]

Last nite being the 1st of the month...is it possible you have a worm that has released its payload and is messing up things?

Maybe try two machines at a time to see if you can isolate the prob to a single machine.

JP

[meese]

Found the info below from this thread here:

http://www.devhood.com/messages/mess...hread_id=70478

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Just had the same problem with an XP Pro upgrade; I couldn't get to the default admin shares (as admin) from another Win2k box (using net use / map network drive). I couldn't print to a shared printer from an ME-based laptop. If I tried to map a drive, the WIN 2k machine kept saying:

"Not enough server storage is available to process this command"

Note that I could connect out from the XP box, and see the shares from other machines, so this isn't a firewall / connectivity / network setup problem.

Solution:
After a productive session with MS, it turns out that Norton AntiVirus 2002 was the culprit.
Antivirus 2002 adds a registry value that prevents shared access.

Here's what worked for me...

-->CAUTION: YMMV: backup this registry key; create a restore point (XP pro)<-->

You need to edit the registry to fix this. The registry entry is:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\LanmanServer\Parameters]

You'll see a value called:

IRPstackSize

It will be set to some value between 4 - 12 (in decimal) usually. Edit the IRPstackSize key and delete the numeric VALUE (not the key).

Now all is well
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Also saw this too:

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBA/tip0100/rh0153.htm

[shahani]

Thanks, meese. Sounds like a plan. Will report on what happens. I do have nav corporate edition 8.0 installed recently so that may very well be the problem.

[shahani]

I uninstalled the NAV and it is all OK now. Thanks, meese very much for the information and your efforts.

Really appreciate this.

[meese]

No sweat. Glad I could help.