WinPE XPSP2 networking problems

[sirgarfield]

I have a simple home network with a NetGear WGR614 v4 router at the heart.

I was able to connect to all of the machines on the network from any machine on the network that was booted into BartPE. After some of the machines were converted to XPSP2 I found that I could only connect to the machines still running SP1.

After further troubleshooting, I found that if I mapped a share on a SP2 computer before trying to access it, I could then access all of the shares on that machine.

If I tried to access a share on a computer before mapping a share on a computer, nothing would allow me access to that computer.

I have later tried Norton Ghost 9.0 with exactly the same symptoms.

I have tried changing the security level on the SP2 machines to low and anonymous logon to no avail.

Does anyone know how to change XPSP2 to allow access over a network by WinPE?

[EvilNotion]

Are you building WinPE with the WinPE 2004 build source or are you using 1.2 or 1.1 build source with SP2?

If you're using the WinPE 2004 (1.5) build source, try building with the /nowf and see if it makes a difference. This will disable the built in Windows Firewall.

Also, take a look at your Windows XP machines.. since you're behind a NAT / Firewall with the WGR614, you can try disabling the Windows Firewall on those machines -- see if it makes any difference.

[sirgarfield]

I am using BartPE. The problem is not with PE as the Norton Ghost factory build behaves the same. I have turned off all firewalls on the target machines, Windows and Zonealarm. The problem is the configuration of the SP2 machines since builds of PE that were able to contact the machines when they were SP1 now are unable to contact the same machines that are now SP2. The home network continued to work normally with no changes in file and printer sharing after I updated.

I have made builds from Sp2 and it doesn't help. Something has changed in SP2 in the intranet protocol. I am using Factory.exe and netcfg.exe versions 5.2.3790.0

in my builds. Is there possibly something later?

I have tried Pnetcfg.exe v2.20 and it works the same.

If someone else is able to network with SP2 machines I would like to know how they did it.

If other people are having the same problems, I would like to compare notes.