username\guest password prompt

From: Rowland <I@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:41:26 -0400

I have four computers on a home network.Three are XP Pro and one is XP Home.I share all drives to all four machines.My problem is with the XP home machine.I can see(share) my shared drives from the XP home to any xp pro but none of the xp pro machines will map any network drive back to the XP home machine.I simple get the password box with
username\guest password box (greyed out)and password request.Obviously there is no password for that account.This has got something to do with the limits of xp home networking but there has to be a solution?
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