Problem with home network with XP Home and XP Professional

[Legaldeejay]

I have 2 computers hooked up to router. Computer A with XP Home and
Computer B with XP Professional. On B, I can access A's files. But on A
(with XP Home), I cannot access anything on B. A message comes up saying
Computer B is not accessible and I don't have permission.

I tried resetting the restrictanonymous registry key on B to 0, which is the
only method that has worked temporarily, but the key keeps resetting to 1 by
itself. Firewalls on both machines are disabled, printer and file sharing
is enabled on both, I tried installing the Netbios Transport Protocol on
both, and all other suggested methods to get this to work have otherwise
failed.

Is this simply because one machine has XP Home and the other has XP
Professional?

I am at wits end. Please help.

Thanks.

 

[John Wunderlich]

I have 2 computers hooked up to router. Computer A with XP Home
and Computer B with XP Professional. On B, I can access A's
files. But on A (with XP Home), I cannot access anything on B. A
message comes up saying Computer B is not accessible and I don't
have permission.

I tried resetting the restrictanonymous registry key on B to 0,
which is the only method that has worked temporarily, but the key
keeps resetting to 1 by itself. Firewalls on both machines are
disabled, printer and file sharing is enabled on both, I tried
installing the Netbios Transport Protocol on both, and all other
suggested methods to get this to work have otherwise failed.

Is this simply because one machine has XP Home and the other has
XP Professional?

As Chuck said, it's probably because XP Home uses Simple File Sharing
and your XP Pro does not. It sounds like your XP Pro has some Domain
or Group policies that keep resetting it to its preferred settings.
(Is this a laptop you take to/from work?) You might try manually
specifying login credentials when you connect to the XP Pro from the XP
Home machine. On XPHome, bring up a command window
(Start->Run->"cmd") and enter the command:

net use * \\computerB\Sharename /user:computerB\computerBusername

where, of course, you substitute real values for "computerB",
"Sharename", and "computerBusername". It will ask you for a password
and after that, you should be connected.

HTH,
John