Peer to peer network issues

[bobby]

My friend had an IT guy create a simple peer to peer
network for her.
PC's are Win XP and windows 2k.

Her Broadband works fine. She can access the internet from
both PC's. She can also browse through network
neighbourhood from pc1 to pc2 BUT she can't transfer files
from one PC2 to PC1.
"Access Denied" is the error message.
Anyone got any ideas on what this could be? I am asuming
permissions.
What would be the easiest way to resolve this issue
// Any suggestions/ideas much appreciated //

 

[lucason]

My friend had an IT guy create a simple peer to peer
network for her.
PC's are Win XP and windows 2k.

Her Broadband works fine. She can access the internet from
both PC's. She can also browse through network
neighbourhood from pc1 to pc2 BUT she can't transfer files
from one PC2 to PC1.
"Access Denied" is the error message.
Anyone got any ideas on what this could be? I am asuming
permissions.
What would be the easiest way to resolve this issue
// Any suggestions/ideas much appreciated //

So you asked for the easies way right?

Set aal permissions on the shares and the folders/files in them to
Everyone full control, and enable the guest account. That will work,
but dont expect any security....

 

[bobby]

Not used Peer to Peer for a while.

Do user accounts have to be created on each PC before the
user can move files around the network.
As i said the user can view all network resources etc just
unable to write to disk on other remote PC.
I guess what i am asking is this: Has the IT dude who
installed the peer to peer set it this way or would this
be the default settings that users can't write to disk
until a user account has been created on the remote PC?

Cheers for any replies once moe.

 

[Marina Roos]

Yep, useraccounts need to exist on every W2k/XP-box in a workgroup or
peer-to-peer environment before they can use network resources.

Marina