Unable to browse share on domain

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A customer of mine purchased a laptop running XP Home edition. He tried to network it with his office workstation on a Windows 2000 domain by putting the laptop in a workgroup with the same name as the domain so it could see those computers, and then connecting to the Windows 2000 Pro workstation in a peer-to-peer fashion by authenticating to it as a local user. Obviously it didn't work.

He then upgraded to Windows XP Professional and asked me to join it to the domain for him. Now the laptop can browse every workstation on the domain except his own, the one he tried to connect with initially. The C drive is shared with full control to the Everyone group on the domain but when trying to connect from the laptop this message appears:
"\\Computername 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 user has not been granted gthe requested logon type at this computer."

This occurs even if a domain admin is logged in on the laptop. He is able to browse the laptop from the workstation.

I would appreciate any ideas on resolving this. Thanks and sorry for the long post.
 
Can you browse the desktop from another pc in the domain with the same user
account? It sounds like the problem is security on the desktop, not the
laptop.

A customer of mine purchased a laptop running XP Home edition. He tried to
network it with his office workstation on a Windows 2000 domain by putting
the laptop in a workgroup with the same name as the domain so it could see
those computers, and then connecting to the Windows 2000 Pro workstation in
a peer-to-peer fashion by authenticating to it as a local user. Obviously it
didn't work.

He then upgraded to Windows XP Professional and asked me to join it to the
domain for him. Now the laptop can browse every workstation on the domain
except his own, the one he tried to connect with initially. The C drive is
shared with full control to the Everyone group on the domain but when trying
to connect from the laptop this message appears:
"\\Computername 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 user has not been granted
gthe requested logon type at this computer."

This occurs even if a domain admin is logged in on the laptop. He is able to
browse the laptop from the workstation.

I would appreciate any ideas on resolving this. Thanks and sorry for the
long post.
 
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