Brain fart on XP Home file sharing

XMEN Iceman · Post by **XMEN Iceman** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:43 pm

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!

XMEN Iceman · Post by **XMEN Iceman** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:46 pm

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.

Spinning Hat · Post by **Spinning Hat** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:00 pm

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...

XMEN Ashaman DTM · Post by **XMEN Ashaman DTM** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:36 pm

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!

MegaDeath70 · Post by **MegaDeath70** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:22 pm

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

TimberWolf · Post by **TimberWolf** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 4:03 pm

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.

TsN|Wildchild|xmen · Post by **TsN|Wildchild|xmen** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 7:57 am

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.

XMEN Iceman · Post by **XMEN Iceman** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:13 am

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.