XP Home Sharing Failure

[K7AAY]

XP Home, Spack 2, on a Dell Inspiron 8200 and Airlink101 3026T 802.11g
card w/ WPA-PSK security).

I can share files on the home LAN from another Dell laptop, but never
this one.

File Sharing is enabled, and I can see the printer on the home LAN, as
well as access the Internet. The workgroup is the same name on all
PCs.

When I go to Network connections and Right-click on Set up a wireless
network for a home or small office, I get

error loading wzcdlg.dll

I can't see this laptop from the LAN even though I've set Shared
Documents are sharable. I can see the printer on this LAN from the
laptop. Turned off ZoneAlarm and made sure Windows Firewall stayed
off.

File and Printer Sharing is bound to the Network connection for the
WiFi card.

No Norton/Symantec products lurking in the system.

Net Share shows
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\_>net share

Share name Resource Remark
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
print$ C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers Printer Drivers
IPC$ Remote IPC Download
C:\Download My Documents C:\Documents and Settings\_\My Documents
SharedDocs C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\ALL USERS\DOCUMENTS
PDFCreator PDFCreator: Spooled eDoc Printer
The command completed successfully.



What's gone wrong with file sharing here?

Best regards, and thank you.
John Bartley K7AAY

 

[Guest]

One easy way would be to create an account on the target that matches the
id/pass you are using on the problem machine.

Windows XP Professional File Sharing:
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/index.htm