Access XP-home-share from WIN2000 problem

[Hans]

Hi!

I have a small LAN with a WINDOWS 2000 Pro machine and a WINDOWS XP
Home
laptop. I shared both C: partititons and there is no problem when I
try to access the share on the WIN2000-machine from the XP-Home
machine,
but when I try to do it the other way round, I get an "access denied"
error
?!
When I access the share of the XP-Home machine, I am able to see the
root-directories, but when I try to access the directories the error
occurs.

any help with this would be greatly appreciated,
thanx in advance!

best regards,
Hans

 

[David]

Hans,

I have similar setup but with exactly opposite result.
Maybe we can help each other ? -- somebody please help.
Here is bits of detail.
I have 1 w2k Pro and 1 wxp Home networked through hub, each has
independent dial-up internet connection. I did the simplest setup. Run
network wizard on wxp and run w2k's own network configuration (xp
network wizard obviously doesn't work on w2k). Both machines are in
same workgroup, I can ping each other correctly. However I can only
see/access wxp from w2k, not the other way round. From wxp network
neighborhood, there is nothing. Tried \\w2k_computer_name from wxp,
error message "Network path not found". I did all the possible
research with various method -- make sure folder shared, create
identical account on two machines, enable netbios over TCP/IP, enable
guest account, remove all the anti-virus software, disable firewall,
verify ip address w2k: 169.254.225.168 wxp: 169/254.181.142, subnet
255.255.0.0 ...
But still, it is not working.
What kind of procedure you used for setup? Detail, please. Thanks.

- David

 

[Hans]

Hi David!

you should be using static IP-adresses, I used 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2
(subnet 255.0.0.0) for my machines. then I added entries to the
lmhosts file
which can be found at c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc

in this file you can map computer-names to ip-addreses, like

mypc1 10.0.0.1
mypc2 10.0.0.2

I helps windows to resolve names.

I did this on both machines and then I could do the sharing by name,
it should also work with the ip-adresses.

I didnt use the wizard, I used the "old way" by sharing directories on
oine machine and connecting to the shares from the other.

HTH!

best regards,
Hans