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Operating system is Windows 2000 professional

I would like to know why on some computers that we are trying to have them
share a program or the desktop this option is greyed out. I checked for
policies on that computer and there are none configured to prevent this.

I am the network admin for this company and need your help to figure this
out.

I am not sure -- the only things that come to mind are a policy setting or
some other permission related issue. This missing option is missing
regardless of the type of user that logs in on the computer (is the option
there if you log in as administrator?).


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Brian Sullivan
Courses by Wire (http://www.coursesbywire.com)

Thanks for the reply.

As I said it is not a policy issue as I have checked this on the computer
and our network does not prevent it. I also made the use local Administrator
of the computer. Still same issue. Could not provide the user with the
Default Administrator account pw as this is a violation and I would have to
change the pw on all 10,000 computers that we have

Don't know then -- if you can get physically at the computer it might be
useful to try the full Administrator login but I understand your problem
supplying the password.

The installation of the O/S was done by imaging? Perhaps something happened
during that process?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... US;Q267958

has a strategy for uninstalling/reinstalling (actually it just
reinitializes the registry) that might be worth trying.

I have seen a similar problem reported here before and don't remember any
resolution coming to light.


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Brian Sullivan
Courses by Wire (http://www.coursesbywire.com)

Hi everyone,

I spent last night looking for a solution to this problem (Unable to
share desktop/apps in NetMeeting however, a connection to another user
is possible).

I had these symptoms and found a solution to it: disable any kind of
port blocking in both ends of the connection.

This is my story:

My ISP has my incoming ports as stealth (ALL of them).
My friend, Douglas, has a connection with NO blocked ports.

I have a lynksys router between my cable modem and Internet. My friend
has NOTHING between his computer and Internet (only the ADSL modem, but
a public IP is assigned to his PC for a direct connection).

We had a netmeeting connection working some days ago. I didn't have my
router though. Douglas hosted the connection (he waited for my call).
During that session everything worked very well when sharing stuff.

Last night we tried the connection again. The difference was my router,
which I had back. We tried connecting and he was able to answer my call
without any problem. We tried sharing and none of us was able to do so.
We tried it around 4 more times (including after rebooting PCs!).

Just before we gave up I told him about me taking the router off. I
took it away, called Douglas again and... voila! :) Sharing was working
as it was supposed to.

I hope my experience helps you in solving your problem (check for port
blocking, routers, stealth ports, etc).

The Flower

I was able to resolve this issue by going to tools -- options -- and changing the directoy settings. I had to make it point to the directory we use here for my company. It was set to Microsoft Internet Directory.

Simple huh?