XP Defautl share setup

I have yet to figure out why XP sets up Drivers, Shared Docs, Printers and Scheduled tasks to be shared by default.

Printers did make sense but do not now.

Shared Docs does make some sense but Drivers and scheduled Tasks do not.

What are they meant to be shared with ?

Is there anyway to get them out ?

BillyBob

 

An example of why Shared Drivers may be used:
This is just for a printer. Similar shares may be used or needed for other devices shared. I assume if the drivers aren't shared and for some reason the networked comp does not have access to the drivers needed by the device it will not work. You get a "U" in the category "works and plays well with others" and a smack on the hand for not sharing your toys unselfishly....

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/itpro/networking/printershare.asp

I'm not sure about scheduled tasks.

 

Scheduled tasks, yes. See Newt's post here. Drivers I'm unsure of, other than printers.

 

BTW.

I have noticed a change in overall speed since I went to a Network Printer and no longer have a SHARED one.

My PowerDesk does respond much faster.

Is this because it is no longer having to look for a shared item ?

I did set a drive on the other machine to be shared and PowerDesk slowed down quite a bit.

So did Windows Explorer ( it was even slower ).

I can now forget about the Printer sharing and work on the others.

BB

 

OK. Thanks folks.

After being pointed in the right direction I have gotten rid of Printers and Scheduled Tasks.

AFTER making sure I had a recent restore point.

BB

 

Under Drivers I see files relating to AVG ( my Anti Virus ) and USB. Thses I recognize easily.

Folder DISDN is empty.

Folder ETC has in it;
Hosts
lmhosts.sam
Networks
Protocol
services.

lmhost.sam is the only one that will open. ( with notepad ).

The others say they can't find the program that created them. ( or some to that effect )

BB

 

BB - all the files you mentioned from \etc are ASCII (plain text) files. Notepad is fine if you want to peek at them but with no extensions, you'll have to tell the system what app to use.

 

BillyBob,

Here's a tweak (courtesy of Mike Flynn) that I used when the 'shares' on my 2 machine network seemed really slow. It really seemed to speed things up. I've used it on XP and 2k and it seems to work equally well. I searched for the original post but I couldn't find it, hopefully I can get this to format properly when I paste it in to this post.

mFlynn’s network tweak…

First! Go into Services and disable Indexing!
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Then

Stop windows from searching for scheduled tasks.

Save by export the following registry key
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE_USER\Software\Microsoft\
Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace]

Find the key with this name:
D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF Delete only this!
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Soup up TCP/IP

Same for following save/export then edit to the following

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\
Services\NetBT\Parameters

modify these values as shown

BcastNameQueryCount=dword:00000001
BcastQueryTimeout=dword:00000020
NameSrvQueryCount=dword:00000001
NameSrvQueryTimeout=dword:00000020

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Then

Disable Network Access Control using IEEE 802.1X

In network Properties.
if you have an Authentication setting then choose it and uncheck the Enable network access control using IEEE 802.1X box.

If you do or do not have the above then check for 802.1X in the NIC properties and disable it. Assuming you do not have Wireless on this machine.
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That's as good as the formatting is going to get (not tooooo bad)

Hope this works as well for you as it did me.

B

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetBT\Parameters]
"NbProvider "= "_tcp "
"NameServerPort "=dword:00000089
"CacheTimeout "=dword:000927c0
"BcastNameQueryCount "=dword:00000003
"BcastQueryTimeout "=dword:000002ee
"NameSrvQueryCount "=dword:00000003
"NameSrvQueryTimeout "=dword:000005dc
"Size/Small/Medium/Large "=dword:00000001
"SessionKeepAlive "=dword:0036ee80
"TransportBindName "= "\\Device\\ "
"EnableLMHOSTS "=dword:00000000

The above is from the Parameters key in question.

If I do select MODIFY on the lines in italics do I just change the numbers before the letters leaving the letters as they are ?

Also not having ( or intending to have again ) a shared Printer I deleted both keys under Namespace. After doing that this XP both shuts down and starts up a bit faster.

And the printer starts just about as quick as I hit print. Of course this Depends on the amount to be printed.

When I went to Staples to see about getting a Network capable printer I was told that they are having trouble keeping them in stock as many home users are switching from shared.

Mr. B

Indexing has been disabled already.

As yet I have not found anything about Authentication setting.

HUH OH !! I gotta go break up a fight. Four Kids and two computers. I am hearing "Grandpa. He ( she ) won't let me "

Need I say more ?

Be back latter.

BillyBob

 

BB,

When modifying those entries, just type 1 or 20 and hit enter. LAN Connection>Properties>Authentication tab.

 

After making the suggested modifacations We played our usual Tuesday evening Golf game with our Friend in Canada.

It seemed to be not only a bit faster but also much smoother. We also seemed to have better swing ( mouse ) control.

Would the changes make the difference or did we ( for once ) get a good clean Internet connection ?

It did not seem to take as long to get info back from him ( he is Host ) as it used to.

Screens seemed to update ( refresh ) faster.

BillyBob

 

Glad to hear things are working well. Can't say for sure that this tweak would improve your internet connection, but with TCP/IP running more efficiently it sure couldn't hurt.

B