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Guys,
I was trying to help Sharp get his small network setup...but XP Home always has a problem with shared drives and credentials to access them...there is a quick fix...but I forgot it and I am exhausted.

Ideas and input would be appreciated.

Gracias!

Ok..some of it is coming back...XP Home does not like Dynamix IP's...he is going to have to assign a static IP to the two computers he wants to connect.

I've never really had an issue with shared drives on Win XP if you use the network setup wizard for the machines involved... But I always run them through a router too, so the IPs are pretty much static from the get go...

If XP is anything like Win2k in its networking...

You gotta share the directory. And you have to give permissions to the users or groups for that directory. AND you have to make sure the permissions are at the level you want (read/write/execute/none/etc).


If it's not like Win2k... then I hope you figure it out!

I have home and professional, and dont have any issues. I also go through a router.

I have never gotten my home network to work right. Example, my dad has Home edition and I have Pro and we can rarely see each other through the router and when we do we can never access each other. I have also tried it with my laptop which also has Pro and can only get it to work one way from my desktop to the laptop, the other way is blocked.

I use it at my office all the time. I have three computers that I have folders in that I can get from any PC. However I do not have ful laccess to those computers only the File Folders I open up to share.

In order for you to share drives on a computer with XP Home, you have to assign it a STATIC IP address and on the XP Pro machine you map the drive to that IP address on the Home machine. Example \\192.168.1.100\C

For some reason XP Home has an issue with shared drives unless you assign static IP's in the house.

Try that solution.