Re: Networking 2 computers with XP Home

From: Net Clueless (Clueless_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/21/04 

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:11:02 -0700

Hello chuck,

I have guests accounts on both systems active at the moment. When I enter lusrmgr.msc, all I get is this message:

"This computer is running Windows XP Home Edition. This snapin may not be used with that version of windows. To manage user accounts for this computer, use the User Accounts tool in the Control Panel"

There are no other options to configure.

I added NetBeui because someone on another forum said it worked for them. I really didn't think it would but I tried it anyway.

Thanks for the suggestion chuck.

"Chuck" wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:58:01 -0700, Net clueless <Net
> clueless@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I'm trying to connect 2 computers together. Both computers have XP home installed. I ran the home netwrok wizard on both machines and both machines can see each other in My Network places. But thats as far as it goes. when I try to Access Comp B from Comp A I get:
> >
> >"\\Comp B is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.
> >
> >Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon at this computer. "
> >
> >Vice Versa I get:
> >
> >"\\Comp A is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.
> >
> >Access denied."
> >
> >Both computers can acces the internet through a linksys Router. And Both computers can Ping each other through Command prompt.
> >
> > - I've got TCP/IP setup correctly on both machines. And even installed NetBEUI per a suggestion I read on the internet.
> > - I've tried adding a user on both machines with the exact same username and password as per internet suggestion.
> > - Another suggestion mentioned a Local security settings option in Admin tools but I found no such thing and assumed it must be an XP Pro thing.
> > - I recently reformatted each computer to clear any bad settings that I wasn;t able to find.
> >
> >There are a bunch of things that I have done to fix this issue but I don;t remeber them all so bear with me. If anyone has a suggestion that might fix the issue please let me know. I really have no idea what is going on.
> >
> >Thanks in Advance
>
> Clueless,
>
> XP Home uses Simple File Sharing, which uses the Guest account for network
> access. Make sure that the Guest account is enabled, thru Local User Manager
> (Start - Run - "lusrmgr.msc"), on each computer.
>
> NetBIOS Over TCP/IP is the correct protocol to use. All NetBEUI will do is
> waste network resources and cpu cycles.
>
> The common user on both computers is useless for Simple File Sharing.
> <http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=87c0a6db-aef8-4bef-925e-7ac9be791028&DisplayLang=en>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Chuck
> Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
>

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