Xp and Shared Databases

[Guest]

I have one computer with Vista Home and another with XP Home both have
Outlook 2007 andrun ona single network(our work) I would like to share a
business contact manager database however I get a message saying Windows XP
Home Edition can not share databases is there a way to fix this? I appreciate
any suggestions.

 

[Luther]

I have one computer with Vista Home and another with XP Home both have
Outlook 2007 andrun ona single network(our work) I would like to share a
business contact manager database however I get a message saying Windows XP
Home Edition can not share databases is there a way to fix this? I appreciate
any suggestions.

With Xp you need to run Windows Pro in order to share sql server
connections with other machines. All network connections to Windows
Home are done as user "guest", that makes it easy to share printers
and music, but it doesn't meet the security bar for a business
application.

I don't know about Vista Home, but I expect matters will be similar to
Xp Home.