Re: Windows XP professional compatable with XP home for file sharing?

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Sukipo wrote:

> Is anybody aware aware of compatibility problems between XP home and
> XP professional.


No, there are no such issues and they work together over a network just
fine. I do it here all the time.


> I am attempting to help a friend who is wanting to
> share a printer and files between his desktop and laptop, one of
> which has Home and the other Professional. I cannot recall which way
> round it is.
>
>
> The system is using Netgear and is sucessfully sharing a broadband
> connection. Whatever we seem do we cannot get it to see each other for
> printer and file sharing purposes.


Perhaps the two most common issues:

1. Make sure that both computers have the same workgroup name.

2. If that doesn't fix it, try temporaily turning off the firewalls on both
machines. If that fixes it, you'll need to configure the firewalls to allow
local access.

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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