Sharing

[Guest]

Environment: Two PCs on my home network both running WinXP SP2 and joined to
a workgroup:

PCs
firstpc
secondpc

Both PCs are joined to THEWORKGROUP

I'm sharing a folder, giving permissions to 'Everyone' to read. When I
connect from one pc to another e.g. typing \\secondpc, a logon prompt prompt
is displayed.
I attempted using both logons for \\firstpc\username and \\secondpc\username
(more likely), however the logon prompt gets displayed again.

Any ideas, please?

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Environment: Two PCs on my home network both running WinXP SP2 and joined to
a workgroup:

PCs
firstpc
secondpc

Both PCs are joined to THEWORKGROUP

I'm sharing a folder, giving permissions to 'Everyone' to read. When I
connect from one pc to another e.g. typing \\secondpc, a logon prompt prompt
is displayed.
I attempted using both logons for \\firstpc\username and \\secondpc\username
(more likely), however the logon prompt gets displayed again.

Any ideas, please?

On each 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 PCs 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


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[Guest]

HI,

If the tow PCs have no psw set on their curent user, i'm sure that the
firewall is the problem. Try "Set up a home or small office network" again
and give acces to share an printer spooler. Do not use gateway or DNS, just
configure manualy if you need it. Disable the firewall after and will work
just fine.

Have a nice share.