Re: XP Pro shares not accessible



Hi Bruce,

Can you see the Pro machine on the network?
Is SP2 installed, and if not is the firewall running?

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"Bruce Chastain" <bachastain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have 3 XP Home systems networked together. All can access the drive and
>directory shares of each other.
>
> I also have an XP Pro on the same network, and none of the XP Home systems
> can access the shares of the XP Pro system. Not even the Shared Documents
> folder.
>
> I've looked at the drive/directory Permissions and Security and can't find
> anything obviously wrong.
>
> So I tried enabling Simple File Sharing on the XP Pro system, and same
> thing. All of the XP Home systems are denied access to the XP Pro shares.
>
> What do I need to do to allow the XP Home systems to access the shares of
> the XP Pro system?
>
> Thanks very much,
> Bruce.
>
>


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