Resolving: You might not have permission to use this network resource

The Issue

Last week I spent few hours trying to resolve silly issue on my Microsoft Vista Home Premium. I was unable to browse my network places. What was even more frustrating – I couldn’t browse any of the boxes on the network, including my own machine. Every time when tried to access one of the visible Network Places, I was getting error similar to this one:

However, I was still able to:

• Ping the Network Place by its name and IP.
• Access web server hosted on this box using HTTP protocol.
• Browse Network Place using UNIX system

I also made sure following is correct:

• All machines are in the same WORKGROUP.
• File and printer sharing is ON.
• Network Discovery is ON.
• My Network Type is set as PRIVATE.

Proposed solutions

I read many posts on the internet and people suggested following:

• Disable TCP/IPv6 in Network Connection Properties window.
• Change configuration of NETBIOS to enable it over TCP/IP.
• Modify registry value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\restrictanonymous
• Disable Firewall/Windows Defender.

Unfortunately, none of the above resolved the issue. I was still unable to browse my network places.

Resolution

Then I decided to check properties of my network adapter once again, and suddenly I discovered following: "Client for Microsoft Networks" was missing from the list!

When I added it do the list and rebooted my machine everything worked just fine!