How to network XP Home and XP Pro together in Peer to Peer

[Guest]

How do you network a XP Home machine and a XP Pro machine together? I've got them set up in a Peer to Peer, and the XP machine can see the Home machine but can not access it. The Home machine sees the workgroup they're both in but it hangs and times out trying to show the machines in the workgroup. There is one other XP Pro in the network and the two XP Pro machine see each other and communicate fine.

 

[Chuck]

How do you network a XP Home machine and a XP Pro machine together? I've got them set up in a Peer to Peer, and the XP machine can see the Home machine but can not access it. The Home machine sees the workgroup they're both in but it hangs and times out trying to show the machines in the workgroup. There is one other XP Pro in the network and the two XP Pro machine see each other and communicate fine.

Greg,

One frequent problem with networking XP Home and Pro computers is
permissioning.

Make sure the browser service is running on each computer. Control
Panel - Administrative Tools - Services. Verify that the Computer
Browser service is started.

On any XP Pro computer, check to see if Simple File Sharing (Control
Panel - Folder Options - View - Advanced settings) is enabled or
disabled. With XP Pro, you need to have SFS properly set on each
computer.

With XP Pro, if SFS is disabled, check the Local Security Policy
(Control Panel - Administrative Tools). Under Local Policies -
Security Options, look at "Network access: Sharing and security
model", and ensure it's set to "Classic - local users authenticate as
themselves".

With XP Pro, if you set the Local Security Policy to "Guest only",
make sure that the Guest account is enabled, thru Local User Manager
(Start - Run - "lusrmgr.msc"), and has an identical, non-blank,
password on all computers. If "Classic", setup and use a common
non-Guest account, with identical, non-blank, password on all
computers.

For XP Home, OR for XP Pro with Simple File Sharing enabled, make sure
that the Guest account is enabled (for XP Pro, thru Local User Manager
(Start - Run - "lusrmgr.msc")), on each computer.

Do any of the computers have a software firewall (ICF or third party)?
If so, you need to configure them for file sharing, by opening ports
TCP 139, 445 and UDP 137, 138, 445, and / or by identifying the other
computers as present in the Local (Trusted) zone. Firewall
configurations are a very common cause of (network) browser, and file
sharing, problems.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

On the WinXP PC, create local user account(s), with non-blank
password(s), that have the desired access privileges to the desired
shares. Log on to the other PC(s) using those account(s), and you
will be able to access the designated shares, provided your network is
configured properly. Also, make sure that WinXP's built-in firewall
is disabled on the internal LAN connection.

Usually, WinXP's Networking Wizard makes it simple and painless --
almost entirely automatic, in fact. There's a lot of useful,
easy-to-follow information in WinXP's Help & Support files, and here:

Home Networking
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/howto/homenet/default.asp

Networking Information
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking.htm

PracticallyNetworked Home
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/index.htm

Steve Winograd's Networking FAQ
http://www.bcmaven.com/networking/faq.htm


Bruce Chambers
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How do you network a XP Home machine and a XP Pro machine together?

I've got them set up in a Peer to Peer, and the XP machine can see the
Home machine but can not access it. The Home machine sees the
workgroup they're both in but it hangs and times out trying to show
the machines in the workgroup. There is one other XP Pro in the
network and the two XP Pro machine see each other and communicate
fine.

 

[Tangy]

I believe XP Home does not do well with more than two machines on a network.
I have erratic problems like this with XP home all the time. Upgrade to Pro
and all will be fine.

How do you network a XP Home machine and a XP Pro machine together? I've

got them set up in a Peer to Peer, and the XP machine can see the Home
machine but can not access it. The Home machine sees the workgroup they're
both in but it hangs and times out trying to show the machines in the
workgroup. There is one other XP Pro in the network and the two XP Pro
machine see each other and communicate fine.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

I believe XP Home does not do well with more than two machines on a
network.

No, that's completely false.

I have erratic problems like this with XP home all the time.
Upgrade to Pro and all will be fine.

I can't tell what his problem is from the skimpy information
below, but that isn't it.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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How do you network a XP Home machine and a XP Pro machine together?
I've

got them set up in a Peer to Peer, and the XP machine can see the Home
machine but can not access it. The Home machine sees the workgroup
they're both in but it hangs and times out trying to show the
machines in the workgroup. There is one other XP Pro in the network
and the two XP Pro machine see each other and communicate fine.