Enable file sharing at home after un-joining from work domain

[DigitalBlade]

I have a laptop that used to be connected to a company domain, but I
no longer need to be on that domain. Due to security policy, the
domain did not allow home networks, so I could never get file sharing
to work. Now, however, I made it part of my home workgroup, and after
going through SECPOL.MSC and the interface settings (to enable file
sharing), as well as running the simple file sharing wizard, I still
can't access the computer. I have added file sharing to the firewall's
exceptions, and created local account (and removed the remote
account). I see my computer in the workgroup network, but when I click
on it, access is denied (it doesn't even ask for a user to log in,
just says inaccessible).

I have two other computers that run fine on the network, and all 3
have Windows XP Pro SP2. Any suggestions what I can do (besides
formatting my computer, of course )?


Thanks

 

[Guest]

I have a laptop that used to be connected to a company domain, but I
no longer need to be on that domain. Due to security policy, the
domain did not allow home networks, so I could never get file sharing
to work. Now, however, I made it part of my home workgroup, and after
going through SECPOL.MSC and the interface settings (to enable file
sharing), as well as running the simple file sharing wizard, I still
can't access the computer. I have added file sharing to the firewall's
exceptions, and created local account (and removed the remote
account). I see my computer in the workgroup network, but when I click
on it, access is denied (it doesn't even ask for a user to log in,
just says inaccessible).

I have two other computers that run fine on the network, and all 3
have Windows XP Pro SP2. Any suggestions what I can do (besides
formatting my computer, of course )?

Thanks

can you ping between the two computers? what ip address do they have?
none of the machines has a duplicate ip or hostname do they?

Flamer.

 

[DigitalBlade]

Yes, I can ping successfully. They are all on the same subnet
(192.168.0.0). I am pretty sure it is some left over policy from the
domain, but can't find anything I haven't tried already.

 

[Guest]

Yes, I can ping successfully. They are all on the same subnet
(192.168.0.0). I am pretty sure it is some left over policy from the
domain, but can't find anything I haven't tried already.

disable all of the windows firewalls and any other software firewalls
that may be running, then try and map the network drive use ip address
rather than name so \\192.168.0.1\share and you should get a login
prompt.

Flamer.

 

[DigitalBlade]

I did that and it worked for mapping the drive, but I am wondering why
can't I access the computer itself? It is more convenient that way and
there shouldn't be a reason why it doesn't work.

 

[Guest]

I did that and it worked for mapping the drive, but I am wondering why
can't I access the computer itself? It is more convenient that way and
there shouldn't be a reason why it doesn't work.

how are you trying to 'access'? rdp? if you can map a drive then you
should be able to rdp aswell as long as its allowed in remote
settings (see here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/mobility/getstarted/remoteintro.mspx
)

Flamer