Installation of Shared Drives on XP and NT Computers

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I have three personal PC's. They are XP and NT. How can I
make a Shared Drive so the contents of that drive are
shown on all computers (XP and NT)?
 
Chris said:
I have three personal PC's. They are XP and NT. How can I
make a Shared Drive so the contents of that drive are
shown on all computers (XP and NT)?
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Right clicking on "My Computer" in both XP and NT throws
up a "Map Network Drive" dialog. Right clicking on a disk
drive icon inside of "My Computer" throws up a menu with a
"Sharing" option.

-- Julie.
 
You'll want to create an account (in User Accounts/ User Manager) on the
WinXP/Windows NT machine with the username and password that you use to
logon to the Windows NT/WinXP machine with. Then you'll need to share out
the resource(s) with permissions for those users. Also make sure they're all
part of the same workgroup and on the same subnet. Then you'll no longer be
prompted for the IPC$ password (Inter-process communication)

In a peer level workgroup, when you try to access resources on a Windows
NT/2000/XP/2003 machine, Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 needs to authenticate the
user. If the user account doesn't exist in it's local account database, then
access will be denied.


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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| I have three personal PC's. They are XP and NT. How can I
| make a Shared Drive so the contents of that drive are
| shown on all computers (XP and NT)?
 
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