netBT Problem

[mikester2]

When i try to run the program nbtstat from the dos command line in windows xp i get the following message ... "Failed to access NetBT driver -- NetBT may not be loaded" ... I've gone into the registry and set it to run automatically, and restarted, but it just stays the same.

Any help would be great.
Thanks in advance.

[phishphreek]

You may not have rights to it? At school, we can't run it under limited accounts. Whether they have disabled it or not... I'm not sure. I'm assuming that you've done some searching a bit?

http://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=9007

Or, m$'s knowledgebase

err... what OS are you using?

You didn't mention what else you've tried... so there are a couple of things to try out.

[mikester2]

Home PC running Windows XP (admin)
Tried setting the registry to auto start netBT ... that is all so far
Any ideas ?

[Wazz]

Go to start and run. Type services.msc. Make sure the TCP/IP NetBIOS helper service is enabled and started. Hope this helps.

[mikester2]

Thanks .... tried that, but it was already on ... still no luck ... anymore ideas ?

[MrLinus]

Have you disabled any services?

[mikester2]

that services that i have disabled are : -

• Background Intelligent Transfer Service
  ClipBook
  Human Interface Device Access
  Indexing Service
  Messenger
  NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing
  PC-clillin Personal Firewall
  Protected Storage
  Remote Desktop Help Session Manager
  Remote Registry
  Routing and Remove Access
  SSDP Discovery Servce
  Telnet
  Universal Plub and Play Device Host

[MrLinus]

Going to sound weird but try to enable Messenger and see if it works then.

[mikester2]

Tried that ... no luck

[MrLinus]

I think I might have a Bingo from Microsoft Knowledge Base..