... is not accessible...blah blah

[RBBRMADE]

I have spent 2 hours trying to get 2 XP Home systems to share printers, folders, etc.
The firewalls are off.
I have uninstalled network adapters, un and reinstalled file/printer sharing, etc...
I have tried to reg hack (LSA/restrictanonymous)..
Norton or any other firewall is not installed on either machine.
I have set up the same username/password on both machines.
I can see both machines on both machines under 'show workgroup computers', but cannot access folders, etc....
This is driving me nuts. I have a good idea of what I am doing, but cannot get this to work.
Both machine are updated.

Any help is appreciated,
Ron

 

[piasabird]

http://www.homenethelp.com/web/howto/net-xp.asp

I love pictures!

Take a look at the link above. It has pictures to show you what I am talking abouot. For some reason you need to select on the advanced part of the properties of the Internet Protocol TCP/IP the setting "USE NET BIOS OVER TCP/IP", which is not the default. See if this helps and let us know.

 

[RBBRMADE]

Now it asks me to log into the other machine. It will not let me select the user name (it uses guest), but when I enter the password, it says ...is not accessible, ...logon failure...

 

[JackMDS]

Successful Sharing involves some general consideration in Network settings, http://www.ezlan.net/sharing.html

As well as specific adjustment of each computer according to what is allowed to be shared.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304040

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