Can´t acces to network drive

[Jmoura21]

I have 2 computers sharing the same network.
the first has windows xp home anda the drive shared to network.
The second is where i want to mapp the drive tha is in the first one. This
second one has windows xp pro. I see the drive to mapp, i mapp it, and in the
end of proccess comes a message to go to control panel to add components.

After this the new drive appears in My Computer but when i try to access it,
the same message comes, go to control panel to add components. And i don't
see the files anda folders in mapped drive. Can anybody help me?

 

[Bob Willard]

I have 2 computers sharing the same network.
the first has windows xp home anda the drive shared to network.
The second is where i want to mapp the drive tha is in the first one. This
second one has windows xp pro. I see the drive to mapp, i mapp it, and in the
end of proccess comes a message to go to control panel to add components.

After this the new drive appears in My Computer but when i try to access it,
the same message comes, go to control panel to add components. And i don't
see the files anda folders in mapped drive. Can anybody help me?

If you have a viable low-level connection (meaning PING-by-number and
PING-by-name both work, from XP HE => XP PRO and from XP PRO => XP HE), the
next thing I'd check is that you have F&P sharing and M$ Client for Nets
enabled on both PCs.

 

[Jmoura21]

Hi Bob

Thanks for your interest. I've checked all u've suggested, and all was ok.

I want to add other thing to my post. When i try to acces to a partition ora
shared hard drive from XP Home to XP Pro, i have the message that i don't
have permission for that, and contact the network administrator, the message
you sure know. The computer with windows xp, i've tried it in other network
and it worke perfect, mapping network drives and exploring them. The big
problem here is that the computer with xp home can´t be formatted and
reinstalled windows again.

Any idea to solve this?