XP-PRO to XP-HOME Sharing.

[Robbie]

Hello, Hope somebody can help.
I have two pc's one with Pro andone Home, I've used the
network connections wizard to enable files charing betwen
the two, both are in the same workgroup, i can 'browse' to
both pc's on both, however I can only access the home pc
not the pro.ie from the pro pc I can access the home pc
files but not the other way around.When I try i get an
error msg which ends:

The remote user logon account needs to be in a group
granted network logon privledges (on the XP box)

I've tried adding privledges on the xp pro pc using
gpedit.msc however here I get a msg ;

Failed to save local policy database.

I've disabled all firewalls, enabled simple file sharing,
created a new share on the rot drive, to everyone
group,enabled netbios over tcip.
I still cant access the pc pro's files from the laptop.
Please help if you can I've spent days trying to resolve
this.

regards.

Robbie.

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

Failed to save local policy database.

Robbie,

something is very wrong here, and I don't have any concrete
solution. But I suspect that this problem causes the other
problems or has a common cause.

Have you ever changed any access rights in the Windows folder or
for the root?

Hans-Georg

 

[Robbie]

Thanks for replying.
I've not changed anything on default share on the root,
(as far as I can remember),although I may have done. I
have always tried to limit my shares to creating a new
share on the root.
Reading other posts other people have had similar
problems, and the only person that has bothered to post
that they found a solution was somebody that says that
they unistalled the firewall software on the XP Pro Pc.I
havent tried this, although I will when I get home.

However I dont hold out much hope so ANY suggestion is
very welcome indeed.

Robbie

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

Thanks for replying.
I've not changed anything on default share on the root,
(as far as I can remember),although I may have done. I
have always tried to limit my shares to creating a new
share on the root.
Reading other posts other people have had similar
problems, and the only person that has bothered to post
that they found a solution was somebody that says that
they unistalled the firewall software on the XP Pro Pc.I
havent tried this, although I will when I get home.

However I dont hold out much hope so ANY suggestion is
very welcome indeed.

Robbie,

please have a look at http://www.michna.com/kb/WxNetwork.htm.
Uninstalling third party firewall software is one point
mentioned in there.

Hans-Georg