XP Home on home network

[Rich Long]

I have a friend who has a workgroup with three hosts: XP
Home, Win2kPro, and Win98SE. Browsing the network, XP can
access shares on 2K and 98, 2K and 98 can get to shares on
each other, but neither can get to shares on XP. UNC path
to XP via Run has same negative result. All three hosts
are receiving IP addresses via DHCP (server is a Linksys
router) Not positive, but I believe the othe hosts can
ping the IP address of XP host. Friend has been dealing
with this problem for quite some time, and had others try
to fix it with no success. I would love to be the one to
solve it.

 

[Chuck]

I have a friend who has a workgroup with three hosts: XP
Home, Win2kPro, and Win98SE. Browsing the network, XP can
access shares on 2K and 98, 2K and 98 can get to shares on
each other, but neither can get to shares on XP. UNC path
to XP via Run has same negative result. All three hosts
are receiving IP addresses via DHCP (server is a Linksys
router) Not positive, but I believe the othe hosts can
ping the IP address of XP host. Friend has been dealing
with this problem for quite some time, and had others try
to fix it with no success. I would love to be the one to
solve it.

Rich,

File sharing with Windows XP presents many challenges. File sharing with
Windows XP, and other operating systems, even more challenges.
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...db-aef8-4bef-925e-7ac9be791028&DisplayLang=en>

For XP Home, make sure that the Guest account is enabled, on each computer.

Do any of the computers have a software firewall (ICF or third party)? If so,
you need to configure them for file sharing, by opening ports TCP 139, 445 and
UDP 137, 138, 445, and / or by identifying the other computers as present in the
Local (Trusted) zone. Firewall configurations are a very common cause of
(network) browser, and file sharing, problems.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

 

[Mary]

XP computer requires another step to share files. Right
click on files, printer or drives you want to share and
pick Sharing and security.