Recent content by Dan7

Nice one mate. My connection dropped again mid-sentence (so to speak) with no apparent updates etc as the cause. Anyway, the registry fix worked a treat. Phew. Copied below.... Set the following Registry key...

Not sure from your email, but you do have to change the security policy on the 2000 machine. W7 uses NTLMv2 by default and Home Premium doesn't let you change it. You therefore have to change the one used in 2000. On the 2000 machine, go to Administrative tools / Local Security Policy /...

As I said, I had to fix up the security policy. But you cannot get access to this in the Home Premium version, so you have to change it on the Win 2000 machine instead. However, this fix didn't work on its own; meddling with the firewall on the W7 machine is what finally let me through. Cheers :)

Got there in the end. Some combination of adjusting security policy on Win 2000 machine and firewall on Win7 seemed to do the trick.

Same problem here, but with a Win 2000 machine I use as a server rather than Win 2000 Server. Even though it has been fine with all previous windows versions, I have searched around and tried the following: 1. Checked User/Pass 2. Use full credentials ie. \\server\user 3. Removed Homegroup...