My local area network is set up as a domain. My Sony Vaio is set up as a wired device, not wireless. Running Windows 7 32 bit Professional In the local Area Network Connections Dialog Box , in the sharing Tab..I get a message that says "Internet Connection Sharing has been Disabled by the Network Administrator"... I am the administrator...so how do I share this system (my Vaio Notebook) on my local domain network...Using Windows 7 Professional

What exactly is it you want to share? Internet Connection Sharing has nothing to do with sharing folders and files and absolutely nothing to do with joining a domain.

my sony viao is not recognized as a computer on my network. my sony notebook can see and access all the systems on my domian...the other desktop computers on my network can see my vaio, but they cannot access anything on the vaio. The viao has been on this netowork for over a year and had no problems.... I believe I had a virus on my notebook and that "wonderful" virus changed a setting somewhere which does not let any of the 8 computers plus my Windows 2003 server , access the Vaio notebook. The message I get when opening the 1) Network sharing center 2) clicking on connections and up pops a dialog box called local Area Connection Status 3) In that dialog box if I click on properties a sharing tab becomes visible ...clicking on it shows the message Internet Connection Sharing has been Disabled by the Network Administrator I have all disks on all systemsset to being shared.with write & read permissions and ..but it seems as though within the network itself the entire Sony notebook is inaccessable. The message I receive on a desktop that tries to coonect to the notebook is: \\VAIO is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. Logon Failure: The target name is incorrect Absolutey nothing has been changed by me ..the administrator.to cause this to happen.....my guess is the virus changed something and now i need to change it back. so that is what I am looking for...I do not want to create another user account on the noetbook and start over. If I do create another user my network troubles do go away , but the i have to reset the whole computer up...which is a long and tedious process. I mentioned that i was on a local domain network, to provide information on the environment ..I do realize that the domin has no impact on sharing folders, directories and disks, unless the domain is not configured properly. ------------------------------------------ Jeff Weiner SoftStar Inc. 1900 E. Golf Rd, Ste 950 Schaumburg, IL 60173 Web : www.softstarinc.com ------------------------------------------

The message you're seeing is probably normal. The only type of sharing that's available in the connection's properties is for sharing an Internet connection. For file sharing and permissions issues we'll have to look elsewhere. Let me ask you this: when the Vaio is attached to the network can you PING it from another computer? If not, we're going to have to dig into the Vaio's network configuration. If you can PING it then the problem lies with the sharing setup. You say that everything works correctly when you log in as a different user? That's really odd, because the shares should be available when no one is logged in at all...

yes I am able to ping the viao notebook from another deskto on the network....and that is probably why it shows up as an icon in the network when clicking on the network icon on the desktop... and yes I set up the system under a different user and was able to have normal operation of the viao on the network, at this point I'm not sure how I did it...I think i followed the set up wizard ...created another user id logged in as that user and everthing was fine except all my customiaztions were gone...as the system was no operating as if a new person was setting up thier own system I knew it did set up another user since i saw in file manager a new identity was set up..that solved the network problem but introduced a bunch of other highly labor intensive problems. hope that helps ..i am at a total loss of what to do next ...i did just install windows 7 professional on the machine as a clean install abt 5 months ago...bought the software form a retailer..not an OEM product...

Moving a user isn't really all that labor intensive, I actually just did it over the weekend and it took less than 10 minutes. Just create the new user with the same privileges as the old user, reboot the machine (this is important in case the old user has any background processes running), log in as the new user then copy all the profile data from the old user into the new one - Desktop, Documents, Favorites, etc. Even most of your program's custom settings can be copied, these are in the AppData\Local and AppData\Roaming folders. Only copy the data for the programs you need, not the entire AppData folder because it contains some user-specific settings in the Microsoft folders that might overwrite data in the new profile and make it unusable. Also, don't copy any files that start with "NTUSER" because those are user-specific as well and this absolutely will destroy your new profile. If you're absolutely sure that a new user fixes the issue then this is probably quicker and easier than playing a guessing-game and trying to troubleshoot a compromised user's registry data. Sorry, I forgot to add: if this is a Domain user it's a bit more involved. If you'd like, I could run you through that process, which is essentially deleting and recreating the user's profile on the local box. It involves a bit of Registry editing, fairly simple and not much.

i do think I have diagnosed the problem..in the network sharing center it lists the computer on a home network, not my domain...is there an easy way to change this from a home network to a domain? I do have a lot of custom settings, desktop icons, startup programs etc etc...it will take a bunch of time and effort to recreate what I have in another user account...if that is the only solution...c'est la vie... but if there is a simple way to log this system onto my local domain that would be great...any thoughts?? and thanks so far for the help. can't figure out how this happened one day its set up as a system on my local domain and the next minute it's off the domain... i guess the virus really did hijack the system

You can change easily the network type: click on the Start Orb, right-click on Network and select Properties. Under the View your active networks it will show your active network and its type. It says Home network you say? Just click on that and it'll ask you what type of network it is. You can change it there. This has more to do with the firewall and policy settings than with domain membership though. Try doing this: Start Orb, right-click on Computer and select Properties. In the left column select Advanced system settings. Select the Computer name tab. Make sure it says you're still joined to your domain. If you are, un-join your computer (change the setting to Workgroup), reboot and wait a few minutes for the DC to replicate your changes then try to re-join the domain. If it says you're not joined to the domain, on the DC go to Active Directory Users and Computers and remove the computer's account. Then try to re-join your domain. Before you do any of this though, make sure you have a local user on the machine with local admin privileges because after you un-join the domain your domain user account won't work until you re-join.

i fixed it...right clicked on my computer..then to properties...then to advanced system settings.....computer name tab....change button...my original mistake was I kept labeling the domain...as MY_Domain_Name.local ..as soon as I dropped the dot local and just went with My_Domain_ Name.... the system said welcome to My_Domain-Name.. Finally!! I spent hours, and hours, and hours and more hours on this and if some doc somewhere just said don't use the dot loca l after the domain name...you will be able to join the domain it would have been nice..but that was too easy. I've been making a lot of money in the computer/software business...for the last 30 years...but sometimes I hate blanking computers.... ***My_Domain_Name = the name i assigned to the domain Thanks for the help...hopefully if someone else has this problem and sees this, it will save them a lot of grief.