Re: XP home can not access XP professional network
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Date: 08/10/04
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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:18:16 -0700
>-----Original Message-----
>On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 07:24:44 -0700, "catrow1 \(remove
this\) @comcast.net"
><anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>I have 2 computers running XP professional on a home
>>network. They access the internet through a linksys
>>gateway. I have just aquired a notebook with XP home. It
>>can access the internet through the gateway but can not
>>access the home network. I have run the wizard on all 3
>>machines. Need some help.
>
>Between the laptop, and one of the XP Pro systems, test
shares visibility (use
>actual name / address of each computer as appropriate):
>Start - Run then:
>1) \\ThisComputerByName
>2) \\ThisComputerByIPAddress
>3) \\OtherComputerByName
>4) \\OtherComputerByIPAddress
>Report visibility of shares / error displayed in each
test (8 tests total).
>
>What model Linksys?
>
>Make sure the browser service is running on each
computer. Control Panel -
>Administrative Tools - Services. Verify that the
Computer Browser service is
>started.
>
>On any XP Pro computer, check to see if Simple File
Sharing (Control Panel -
>Folder Options - View - Advanced settings) is enabled or
disabled. With XP Home
>and Pro together, you need to have SFS properly set on
each computer.
>
>With XP Pro, if SFS is disabled, check the Local Security
Policy (Control Panel
>- Administrative Tools). Under Local Policies - Security
Options, look at
>"Network access: Sharing and security model", and ensure
it's set to "Classic -
>local users authenticate as themselves".
>
>With XP Pro, if you set the Local Security Policy
to "Guest only", make sure
>that the Guest account is enabled, thru Local User
Manager (Start - Run -
>"lusrmgr.msc"), and has an identical, non-blank, password
on all computers. If
>"Classic", setup and use a common non-Guest account, with
identical, non-blank,
>password on all computers.
>
>For XP Home, OR for XP Pro with Simple File Sharing
enabled, make sure that the
>Guest account is enabled (for XP Pro, thru Local User
Manager (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.
>.
>lynsys is a befsr41
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