Accessing an XP Pro machine from the network

[Peace]

Hi,

I have an XP Pro machine that is configured to be a WORKGROUP member (as
contrary to be a domain member). This XP machine is actually a laptop & I
use it at different places. One of them is the office where I work. When I
plug this laptop to the office hub, it does get an IP address release from
the DHCP server & from it, I can access other workstation on the office LAN.

However, the opposite is not true. That is, when I want to map a drive from
any office LAN workstation to the C drive of the laptop, I keep getting the
username/password window even when I enter the administrator account &
password of the laptop.

Does anyone have any solution to this?

Thank you

 

[Patrick Pitre]

Peace,

What happens when you try to connect to the laptop using these credentials:

laptopname\administrator
theadminpassword

Unless you're using the above method, you might be inadvertantly trying to
pass local machine credentials to the laptop.

Hope this helps.

Patrick Pitre

 

[Thierry Blanchard]

Have you tried to disable the "Simple Files Sharing" in the Folder Options ?
This might be an incorrect translation to english from my french XP version.