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Win2000 Pro now blocks sharing on boot up....

by dllfo May 25, 2007 2:47PM PDT

I have 4 laptops with XP sp2 and a desktop with Win 2000 Pro. They worked great until today. I paid a guy to set it up and it worked like a champ for about a month.

I got a malware on one laptop, followed advice in here and removed it.
RogueRemover worked great. I also installed it on the Winpro 2000 to be sure it was clean. Those are the only changes.

Now, the Win2000 boots up with c$ in the sharing area. I remove it. I replace it with c-drive and try a reboot. C$ and that hides the files from the network. How can the computer change my settings?

My firewall is set to share in the network. I have even turned it off.
(Zone Alarm Free). Nothing yet has helped the other computers see the
winpro 2000. Or it see them.

It is a wireless network. I am considering trying to install XPsp2
on the older computer. It is a pent 4, 512mb of ram.

Any ideas appreciated...thank you.

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I'll skip the primer on Windows 2000 C$ issues.
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator May 26, 2007 1:41AM PDT

If you dive into the old books you'll learn that it's proper for 2000 to do that. There's an article on sharing the C drive, let's find it?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Windows+2000%22+SHARE+C+DRIVE&btnG=Google+Search

Yup, it's noted how to do that. Your method will feel like one is being beat up on by Windows.

There's another issue and that is some malware will corrupt the TCPIP WINSOCK settings. I never try to research what the damage is anymore unless paid well so I pull up WINSOCKFIX (google that) and that pushes the settings back to normal.

Bob

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I'll skip the primer on Windows 2000 C$ issues.
by dllfo May 26, 2007 8:18AM PDT

Thanks, it worked pretty well. For some reason, my laptop (XPsp2)can connect to the Win2000 Pro, but the Win2000 cannot see my laptop. It can see the other laptops, but not mine.

You fixed it, thank you, I will try to figure out why XP can see Win2000 but Win2000 can't see XP. The other two laptops have XPsp2 on them.

The Malware that messed me up was the result of a former friend, I wound up with Spylock on my laptop. Someone suggested RogueRemover and it really cleaned up. I plan on buying their pro version since
SpySweep didn't find it and SpyBot fought a good battle, but did not kill it off, I need something to protect me from myself and "friends".
A buddy told me it was a film clip of a motorcycle hill climb, but when I tried to open it, it said I needed a new activeX or something like that, without thinking, after all, he was a buddy, I opened it and Spylocked came out. Life hasn't been the same since. THAT was when the network died.

I, for one, really appreciate you taking your time to help the heathen masses out here...take care....Dave

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Let's see if it's something else that's uncommon.
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator May 26, 2007 10:29AM PDT

Tell be if your BROWSER SERVICE is running. Click Start, Run and put in

SERVICES.MSC

Is the browser service running?

Bob

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