Home doesn't see Pro

[JMF]

I've got XP Home Edition on my laptop and XP Pro on my desktop.

On my home LAN, I put them in the same workgroup, etc.

XP Pro "sees" the XP Home computer in My Network Places, but XP Home doesn't
see the XP Pro machine.

I can't figure out what I can do to get this working.

In the "early days" of this home LAN, the laptop *would* see the XP Pro
sporadically, it almost seemed random. Then finally it stopped seeing the XP
Pro machine altogether.

Here are some more facts: there is also yet another laptop on this little
LAN, which is running Win2K Pro. He sees *everybody* and *everybody* sees
him!

So somehow, some way, there must be some kind of problem with the "protocol"
between the XP Home and the XP pro.

Could it be, in some way, the "permissions"? Does XP Home need some kind of
"permission" or "login" or whatever to "see" the Pro machine?

And here's yet another fact: I regularly use the Windows backup utility,
launched in XP Home (I got it from Pro), to back up from Home to Pro. In
other words, this is a case where the Home machine actually *does* find/see
the Pro machine -- but it doesn't find it in the case of My Network Places,
which is pretty important for moving files around, of course.

Thanks for any ideas about what might be going on,

John

 

[NoConsequence]

I've got XP Home Edition on my laptop and XP Pro on my desktop.

On my home LAN, I put them in the same workgroup, etc.

XP Pro "sees" the XP Home computer in My Network Places, but XP Home doesn't
see the XP Pro machine.

I can't figure out what I can do to get this working.

In the "early days" of this home LAN, the laptop *would* see the XP Pro
sporadically, it almost seemed random. Then finally it stopped seeing the XP
Pro machine altogether.

Here are some more facts: there is also yet another laptop on this little
LAN, which is running Win2K Pro. He sees *everybody* and *everybody* sees
him!

So somehow, some way, there must be some kind of problem with the "protocol"
between the XP Home and the XP pro.

Could it be, in some way, the "permissions"? Does XP Home need some kind of
"permission" or "login" or whatever to "see" the Pro machine?

And here's yet another fact: I regularly use the Windows backup utility,
launched in XP Home (I got it from Pro), to back up from Home to Pro. In
other words, this is a case where the Home machine actually *does* find/see
the Pro machine -- but it doesn't find it in the case of My Network Places,
which is pretty important for moving files around, of course.

Thanks for any ideas about what might be going on,

John

This can work.

Some basics:

1. Make sure you have identical user accounts, with identical NON
BLANK passwords.

2. Make sure both computers are members of the same workgroup.

3. Turn off simple file sharing on both boxes.

4. Make sure you have SHARED something.

 

[JMF]

This can work.

Some basics:

1. Make sure you have identical user accounts, with identical NON
BLANK passwords.

2. Make sure both computers are members of the same workgroup.

3. Turn off simple file sharing on both boxes.

4. Make sure you have SHARED something.

NoConsequence,

Thanks! I strongly suspect that Number 1 is the problem. I do not, in fact,
have identical user accounts. I'll get right on it.

Thanks again,

John