Re: HOME NETWORKING - ONLY TWO OF THE COMPUTERS CAN ACCESS EACH OTHER

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From: Chuck (none_at_example.net)
Date: 06/16/04 

Date: 16 Jun 2004 14:18:18 -0500

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 02:57:36 +1000, "herman_lhm" <herman_lhm@hotmail.com> wrote:

>I am having a problem in sharing folders for my home network.
>Please give me some help. Thank you.
>
>
>The table below is the descriptions of my home network:
> COMPUTERS COMPUTER NAMES FILE SYSTEM OS WORKGROUP NAME IP SUBNET MASK
> 1 HERMAN NTFS XP PRO WORKGROUP 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0
> 2 TANYA FAT XP HOME WORKGROUP 192.168.0.2 255.255.255.0
> 3 JANICE FAT XP PRO WORKGROUP 192.168.0.3 255.255.255.0
>
>
>The ICS is working fine where HERMAN is the computer directly connected to
>the internet.
>All 3 computers are using simple file sharing.
>HERMAN can view and access all shared folders and drives from any computer
>on the home network.
>TANYA and JANICE can only view and access the shared folders and drives from
>TANYA and JANICE, not HERMAN's.
>
>Can please tell me how to share folders from HERMAN, so that everyone on the
>network can view and access them?
>
>Looking forward to your reply, Thank You.

Herman,

For XP Home, OR for XP Pro with Simple File Sharing enabled, make sure that the
Guest account is enabled (Start - Run - "lusrmgr.msc"), on each computer.

Do any of the computers have a software firewall (ICF or third party)? If so,
you need to configure them for file sharing, by opening ports TCP 139, 445 and
UDP 137, 138, 445, and / or by identifying the other computers as present in the
Local (Trusted) zone. Firewall configurations are a very common cause of
(network) browser, and file sharing, problems.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

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