XP upgrade and now I can't share files or change workgroup

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I upgraded an older computer from Win98 to XPSP2. The name of the workgroup
is MSHOME and it is grayed out so I cannot change it. I also cannot share
the drives on that machine. Is there something in XP that I have to enable
after upgrading??

TIA
 
Bob Wallis said:
I upgraded an older computer from Win98 to XPSP2. The name of the workgroup
is MSHOME and it is grayed out so I cannot change it. I also cannot share
the drives on that machine. Is there something in XP that I have to enable
after upgrading??

TIA
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Open Control Panel - System and go to the Computer Name tab. Click on
the Change button. You should be able to change both the Computer and
Workgroup names there.

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Already tried that and the workgroup name is grayed out and won't allow any
changes. Any other ideas????
 
Are you logged on as a local administrator?? That is something that will be
different than from Windows 98 in that in Windows 98 all users had the same
abilities on the computer but now only users in the administrators group can
do tasks such as you describe. You can use the command net localgroup
administrators [while logged on as any users] to see what users are members
of the local administrators group. --- Steve
 
Bob said:
I upgraded an older computer from Win98 to XPSP2. The name of the workgroup
is MSHOME and it is grayed out so I cannot change it. I also cannot share
the drives on that machine. Is there something in XP that I have to enable
after upgrading??

TIA
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On the WinXP PC, create local user account(s), with non-blank
password(s), that have the desired access privileges to the desired
shares. Log on to the other PCs using those account(s), and you will be
able to access the designated shares, provided your network is
configured properly. Also, make sure that WinXP's built-in firewall is
disabled on the internal LAN connection.

Usually, WinXP's Networking Wizard makes it simple and painless --
almost entirely automatic, in fact. There's a lot of useful,
easy-to-follow information in WinXP's Help & Support files, and here:

Home Networking
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/howto/homenet/default.asp

Networking Information
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking.htm

PracticallyNetworked Home
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/index.htm

Steve Winograd's Networking FAQ
http://www.bcmaven.com/networking/faq.htm


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