Networking XP

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Daniel Carwile

I have a small business and often use my network to configure or update
computers.

Most of the time I don't have any problem connecting to my main PC,
running W2K, but every now and then I can't get an XP Home pc to connect.
It's on the network and has Internet access but wont communicate with my
file server.

I've made it a member of the workgroup and it has a valid IP but just
keeps saying \\servername\D access denied. And then the message "you may
not have sufficient permissions to access".

This is usually when logging on as the customer. Under normal
conditions it asks for a user name and password and at this time I'll use my
user name and password. But in the rare occasion it doesn't asks for this I
can't connect. I've even tried to set up a user account on my main PC with
the same user name and password I'm logged on to the customers PC with.
Still doesn't work.

Could this possibly be an AMD vs. Intel issue?
 
It's not an AMD vs Intel thing. It's purely an XP Home thing. On the W2K
mchine, enable the guest account when you want to do this. XP Home is truly
designed to be a home computer. It only wants to connect to open file
shares.

....kurt
 
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