Computers around the house can no longer access recording drives...

[bialio]

All of a sudden none of my computers in the house can access the Sage Recording directories unless I'm actually sitting there browsing in Windows Explorer. So comskip has stopped working - any one have ideas on what can cause that? I made sure everything was running as the same user with the same password, and this WAS working for the longest time. Something in the last few days / weeks? seems to have mucked it up....

[rgroves]

Check for any Windows Updates recently installed.

Are all your PC's on Win7? What about the PC with the recording drives, is it on Win7? If so, it's a Windows Security patch, there are workarounds out there that involve changing a setting in your Local Security Policy/ Local Group Policy to get it working again.

[bialio]

They are all windows 7 machines. Any pointers to the workaround?

[Fuzzy]

Check in the Network and Sharing center -> Choose homegroup and sharing options -> Change advanced sharing settings... to verify all the sharing options are on.

[rgroves]

click the start button and type secpol.msc in the search function.

Browse to "Local Policies" -> "Security Options". Now look for the entry "Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level" and open it. Click on the dropdown menu and select "Send LM & NTLM - use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated". Apply the settings.

In the Advanced sharing settings page of Network and sharing center, you need to have it set as Work/Home profile. Try

-Enable network discovery
-Turn on file and print sharing
-Turn off password protected sharing
-Use user accounts and passwords to connect to other computers

The other settings such as encryption I have set as use 128 bit encryption.

Please check related policies.

1. Enter “gpedit.msc” in the Start Search box.
2. Open “Computer Configuration”/Windows Settings/Security Settings/Local Policies/Security Settings.
3. In the right pane, enable the following policies:

Network access: Allow anonymous SID/name translation
Network access: Let Everyone permissions apply to anonymous users

Also please disable the following policies.

Network access: Restrict anonymous access to Named Pipes and Shares
Network access: Do not allow anonymous enumeration of SAM accounts
Network access: Do not allow anonymous enumeration of SAM accounts and shares

[bialio]

Thanks rgroves - those settings got everything workin' again!

[rgroves]

Cool. Glad it helped.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by rgroves

Cool. Glad it helped.

I too stole your settings .. I noticed an improvement in browsing the shares.

[BigSwifty]

Big shout out to RGROVES!
I performed a reinstall and couldn't get my network shares to work...
The tips in this post fixed my issues!

Now if I could only get my upgrade to V9 working...