Can't access shared drives on ho me peer to peer net

[Rosco]

Here's my situation. I have A small home office network consisting of
1 desktop running XP Home, 1 Laptop running XP Pro, and an old desktop
running Win98SE. The last acts as a print server and backup file
server. All running through a Linksys router/gateway.

All PCs get internet access fine. Both XP PCs will read/write to the
98SE PC. Both XP PCs print fine through the 98 PC. The problem is that
I can not read/write to either XP PC. I
just get a denied access message. I have the MS firewall turned off (
I use zone alarm) on both XP PCs. I've tried disabling Zone Alarm to
make sure that is not the problem ( It isn't). I am not running any
systems utilities such as system works, and I have the file and print
shareing turned on for the appropriate drives.

Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks in advance for your help
Rosco

 

[Paul]

I may be way off here......

On the XP machines

Goto control panel, Administrative tools, local security policies

Goto local policies, security options.

Set "Accounts: limit local account use of blank passwords to console logon
only" to disabled

Or set up the windows 98 machine to use user profiles and what ever username
and password you chose., add these as users on the XP boxes and put these
new users in the local administators group......

 

[Alex Nichol]

I may be way off here......

On the XP machines

Goto control panel, Administrative tools, local security policies

Goto local policies, security options.

Set "Accounts: limit local account use of blank passwords to console logon
only" to disabled

I think you are on the track. I ran into it on a peer to peer WiFi
connection only last week. One point, the tool is not available in XP
Home, but Kelly has a fix for the point at
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
Line 67, left, 'Run Scheduled tasks without PW - Home'

 

[Guest]

----- Alex Nichol wrote: ----

Paul wrote

I may be way off here.....
only" to disable

I think you are on the track. I ran into it on a peer to peer WiF
connection only last week. One point, the tool is not available in X
Home, but Kelly has a fix for the point a
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.ht
Line 67, left, 'Run Scheduled tasks without PW - Home

--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies
Bournemouth, U.K. (e-mail address removed)8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit

Paul and Alex

Thank you both for your responses
Rosc