Windows XP Home Edition - Unable to Resolve Local Windows File Share

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Onito

I've recently completed a program in the .NET framework (2.0) that acts
as a network file browser.

It maps and documents all of the publicly available file shares on a
network via IP address:
ie. 111.222.0.254 to 111.222.134.254
stores all of its findings in a database and then uses ADO.Net to feed
URLs into a media player control.

As it turns out, the program runs fine on Windows XP Pro and Windows
2000 Server, but when I tried to run the program on Windows XP Home, I
couldn't even get to the machine that hosted the install in a shared
folder. For example, the user goes to \\111.222.164.59\ and then Opens
the install file waiting in a folder. When you go to Run and type in
\\111.222.164.59\ and then click OK (regardless of the terminating
slash), windows home has a fit and says that the path does not exist,
when in fact the machine sitting next to it (pro) has no problem what
so ever with the path.

Can anyone help me figure out what topics are related to this behavior,
and more importantly, what the hell is going on here?
Thanks! (e-mail address removed)
 
I also need to add that none of the machines that I've worked with have
been part of the network domain.
 
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