An EASY question for all you networking gurus

[PurdueRy]

All I want to do is have a home network with two computers hooked up to a hub. Everything works find except that I can only access the other computer and it cannot access mine. It says that they need to obtain "rights" or something along those lines. Both computers are running XP PRO. I can access "myself" on the network and I can also access his computer if that wasn't clear.

FYI, I think the problem is with my computer as this was the same situation when I was at college.

 

[skyking]

If you require users to login, then you'd need to make a user on your computer that matches a user on his computer. when you log in to the one, you will be logged into the other one, once you set up sharing.

 

[LBmtb]

Are you trying to share folders or printers? Are you able to ping ecah computer from the other computer?

 

[PurdueRy]

trying to get to eachothers shared folders.

 

[ktwebb]

Skyking is on the right track. If your using XP then your using usernames, even if you have it setup without passwords so you log directly into the desktop. still using a username that you setup during windows setup. Each machine will need a local account that matches what your using to logon to the remote machine with proper rights. Typically you will setup the share with share permissions wide open and use NTFS permissions, the security tab on the folder or share, to lock it down. This assuming your using NTFS as your file system. The poor choice alternative is to enable the guest account, which turns your machine into a 98 box in terms of security. Still need to have something shared. Simple file sharing is a similar option but I suggest disabling that as well if it is enabled and use Access control lists and user level security instead. Slightly more work to setup properly but that is the proper method for windows file sharing where security is concerned.

 

[JackMDS]

Log to this page it has a lot of links to instructions to Windows Network Settings, and Sharing.

Link to: Windows Network - Installing & Sharing.

:sun:

 

[PurdueRy]

Tried some of those ideas and still have the same problem. as soon as he clicks on my name it gives him an error that says you need permissions. there is no "Hesistation" between click and error, its pretty much instantaneous. Which I think is weird considering it seems like its not even checking my computer.

 

[Rapidskies]

Make sure they both have the same WORKGROUP name then add the username & password to the PC that he is trying to access.

 

[PurdueRy]

As an added note I just mapped my C drive on his computer and he can access anything that isn't protected. So if that helps, maybe it will?