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This is driving me Nuts! XP Home vs Win2k Pro FileSharing

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hevnsnt

Lifer
ARRRRRGHH.

Ok, I have 2 machines on a wireless network as following.

1) XP Home Is on the Workgroup: MSHOME. I have a folder shared on the desktop.
2) Win2k Pro (work machine) is on the work domain, logging in with cached info.

Both machines are setup on the same wireless network. All I want to do is have a dir on the XP machine that the 2k machine can write to. Here is what I have done so far.

Created a folder on the XP machine, clicked sharing, shared the folder and allowed people to write to it. There is not an "Enable simple sharing" option in the folder options like in pro. I then made sure that netbios over ip was enabled. If I type \\XPMACHINE name on the xp machine it will show the folder as being shared.

so I go over to the 2k machine. :evil:

I go start run and type \\XPMACHINE and it tells me path cannot be found. So I go to dos and try ping xpmachine and it responds no problem.

So then I tried creating a user account on the XP machine to match what is logging into the 2k machine, same error.

This is driving me nuts.. Anyone have any clue?
 
Originally posted by: hevnsnt
I go start run and type \\XPMACHINE and it tells me path cannot be found. So I go to dos and try ping xpmachine and it responds no problem.
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Can you enter the IP address of XPMACHINE instead? I don't do Windows networking much, so I'm not certain if that's possible. If it is, you should be able to enter that name-->IP mapping in a "hosts" file somewhere (where?) to provide the correct path. The problem is that the whole Windows name lookup scheme is pretty much jacked, and using machines in different workgroups/domains is complicated. Adding in cached domain logins may complicate things as well.

 
Originally posted by: hevnsnt
well actually ip wont matter.. The machine resolves the netbios name fine..
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Seems logical enough to me. But Windows networking isn't always logical. Have you tried it?

I'm not trying to be argumentative or anything. It's just that the whole NetBIOS/SMB thing is such a nasty mess that I no longer count on logic to solve my problems with it. The problem, I would guess, is that the 2K machine is looking for a Browse Master that doesn't exist. Pings may fall back to broadcast resolution, whereas Explorer may not. I don't really know, but it seems worth a try.

 
I think you need to be on the same workgroup. And does XP home only support simple file sharing? Have you tried browsing for the othe computer on the network? If you were to use a direct network path from you 2K machine, I think you would have to use \\MSHOME\XPMACHINE
 
yes I have tried everything I can think of.. I doubt it has to be on the same workgroup (although I bet it would be easier if they were) anyone else have any ideas?
 
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