XP Home Networking headache

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Charlie Costanzo

Hopefully, I have a standard XP networking issue. I have
two XP Home machines, desktop and laptop, connected to a
LAN via a router that came with the DSL package. They can
ping each other. Their icons show up in Network
Neighborhood. Sharing is turned on for both, files from
both and a printer from the desktop. Client for MS
Networks is checked for both. Both must be logged in with
a password. Both have guest accounts turned on. But alas
the shared resources are not accessible. The error
message says that "... is not accessible. You might not
have permission to use this network resource..." How do I
grant permissions? I have been told that the problem can
be resolved by removing "Simple File Sharing" but I can't
find the control panel for this. It's not in the Tools --
Folder Options --> View panel. Is it in the User
Click to expand...
Accounts control panel? I'm looking for the same tool
that was once under "Manage" in Win2k. It gave fine
grained control to added "users", "everyone", "guests",
etc. Please help.
 
Ok man, not to make you look like a total moron. Now that
you have it configured correctly (which you do)its is a
simple matter of designating which files and folders you
want to share.
1. Open "My Computer".
2. Right click on the drive(s) that you want to share.
3. Selet "Sharing" off of the menu that pops down.
4. Name the drive and hit ok and it'll have a little hand
under the drive icon if you did it right signifying that
the folder or drive is a shared one.
5. Do it to the other computer and everything should be
hunky-dory.

Rob
 
I forgot to mention. My desktop is xp pro but my laptop
is xp home. I found simple file sharing on the desktop
but can't on the laptop.It isn't in the list at all. So
that is maybe why Charlie can't see files either way and
I can't see the laptop files from the desktop.
Any help out there?

Cindy
 
Cindy,
I think you are both wrong. I know what you guys are
thinking of though. It is the permissions tab, and its
easy to get to.
1. Right click on the folder you want to share.
2. Click Properties, then on the security tab. If you
click Advanced you can go in and fine tune the
permissions. But I doubt this will help you out any..

Rob
 
Rob,

Are you aware that we are talking about XP Home which
does not have all the bells and whistles that XP pro
has. For example I can assign permissions with XP pro
but I can't seem to do that with XP Home


I think you are both wrong. I know what you guys are
thinking of though. It is the permissions tab, and its
easy to get to.
1. Right click on the folder you want to share.
2. Click Properties, then on the security tab.
Click to expand...

There is no Security tab, only a General tab.


If you
click Advanced you can go in and fine tune the
permissions.
Click to expand...

Advanced does not give you any choices for permision,
only archiving, fast searching and compression.

Cindy
 
I'll take it a step further Rob...

I can connect between computer A and B (which both have XP
pro) but computer C (which has Xp Home edition) is not
recognized by the other two. All computers have microsoft
client chech box checked and file sharing has been
enabled. Set up the Network wizard three or four times on
each as I thought I was doing it wrong. All have the same
workgroup name. All have been successfully pinged between
each other. There is only one administrator account for
each and there are no passwords so that is not an issue
either. Computer C (XP home) reconizes the network is
there under 'My network places' however I am denied access
when I double-click it.
Computer A and B (both XP Pro) do not recognize computer C
on their network places even after I mapped the network
drive but they seem to able to share between the two of
them fine. I have gone through the troubleshooter over a
half a dozen times and have exhausted all my knowlegde.
There must be a simple answer. Any suggestions?
VERY much appreciated!
 
I've had the same problem for a couple of weeks now. It
seems to coincide with one of the (many) MS patches that
have come out in the past while.

I have XP Home on my laptop and W2K Pro on another laptop
and a desktop.

Something happened a couple of weeks ago that's prevented
me from communicating from my XP Home machine to anyone
else. My W2K PCs work just fine. Incidentally, I also
can't connect to any NT 4 PCs or a Samba server at one of
my clients, but I can access shares at another client
whom I believe is running W2K Server.

There's a small chance that connecting to the W2K Server
and configuring Outlook to access Exchange has
somehow "converted" my XP Home PC to be a slave only to
it, but I tend to prefer the rogue patch idea.

My workaround has been to email any files to myself back
and forth using webmail, but this is growing old real
fast. Anyone else have any experience with this?

Thanks,

Dan
 
c brandt said:
I forgot to mention. My desktop is xp pro but my laptop
is xp home. I found simple file sharing on the desktop
but can't on the laptop.It isn't in the list at all. So
that is maybe why Charlie can't see files either way and
I can't see the laptop files from the desktop.
Click to expand...

Cindy,

Windows XP Home only does simple file sharing. There is no
choice.

For a list of possible problems please have a look at
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxNetwork.htm.

Hans-Georg
 
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