Re: windows xp pro (sp2) file and printer sharing

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Which box are you at? "B" or "A" you say that you enabled F+P on Comp A but are trying to look at the drive on B! F+P must be enabled on the machine you are trying to access. Also check the shared locations permissions.

Chris H wrote:

Hi, Thanks for the reply... but I already have the same username and password for the "Chris" account on both machines.

Aside from the guest account which is deactivated, the Chris account is the only user on each machine.




Bob I wrote:

Put the SAME user name password combo on BOTH machines and use them.

Chris H wrote:


Hi,

Can anyone shed some light on this for me please...

I have set F+P sharing on comp A and im trying to view the shared drive on comp B. I'm using windows xp pro with SP2 on both pc's and all firewalls are turned off.

However each time I try to connect to the shared drive I get prompted for a username and password. The username box is already filled in with the details of the guest account (which is disabled on both pc's) so i am unable to change this. There is also no password set on the guest account on either pc anyway.

Can someone tell me how to remedy this before i throw both pc's out of the window :)

Many thanks,
Chris




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