Windows XP professional compatable with XP home for file sharing?

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Hi

Is anybody aware aware of compatibility problems between XP home and XP
professional. I am attempting to help a friend who is wanting to share
a printer and files between his desktop and laptop, one of which has
Home and the other Professional. I cannot recall which way round it is.


The system is using Netgear and is sucessfully sharing a broadband
connection. Whatever we seem do we cannot get it to see each other for
printer and file sharing purposes.

Any advice would be very much appreciated.
 
See if this link helps.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/default.mspx

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| Hi
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| Is anybody aware aware of compatibility problems between XP home and XP
| professional. I am attempting to help a friend who is wanting to share
| a printer and files between his desktop and laptop, one of which has
| Home and the other Professional. I cannot recall which way round it is.
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| The system is using Netgear and is sucessfully sharing a broadband
| connection. Whatever we seem do we cannot get it to see each other for
| printer and file sharing purposes.
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| Any advice would be very much appreciated.
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Hi

Is anybody aware aware of compatibility problems between XP home and XP
professional. I am attempting to help a friend who is wanting to share
a printer and files between his desktop and laptop, one of which has
Home and the other Professional. I cannot recall which way round it is.


The system is using Netgear and is sucessfully sharing a broadband
connection. Whatever we seem do we cannot get it to see each other for
printer and file sharing purposes.

Any advice would be very much appreciated.
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YES, XP Pro is compatible with XP Home.

Just check

1) SP2 Firewall -- Make sure your allow "File/Print sharing

2) Workgroup -- Both need to be on the same workgroup.

3) User account -- Each PC's user account may need to be created on the
other, in order to access each other's files/printers

4) IP address / subnet mask -- Both need to be using the same IP address
scheme and the same subnet mask

Example :

PC 1 -- 192.168.1.1 -- 255.255.255.0

PC 2 -- 192.168.1.2 -- 255.255.255.0
 
Sukipo said:
Is anybody aware aware of compatibility problems between XP home and
XP professional.
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No, there are no such issues and they work together over a network just
fine. I do it here all the time.

I am attempting to help a friend who is wanting to
share a printer and files between his desktop and laptop, one of
which has Home and the other Professional. I cannot recall which way
round it is.


The system is using Netgear and is sucessfully sharing a broadband
connection. Whatever we seem do we cannot get it to see each other for
printer and file sharing purposes.
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Perhaps the two most common issues:

1. Make sure that both computers have the same workgroup name.

2. If that doesn't fix it, try temporaily turning off the firewalls on both
machines. If that fixes it, you'll need to configure the firewalls to allow
local access.
 
Sukipo said:
Hi

Is anybody aware aware of compatibility problems between XP home and XP
professional. I am attempting to help a friend who is wanting to share
a printer and files between his desktop and laptop, one of which has
Home and the other Professional. I cannot recall which way round it is.
Click to expand...


There are no compatibility issues when networking between WinXP Home
and WinXP Pro.

The system is using Netgear and is sucessfully sharing a broadband
connection. Whatever we seem do we cannot get it to see each other for
printer and file sharing purposes.
Click to expand...

On each WinXP computer, 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, if running WinXP SP1 or later, make sure
that WinXP's built-in firewall is disabled on the internal LAN
connection. If using WinXP SP2, make sure that you've either disabled
the built-in firewall, or set the firewall to allow file and print sharing.

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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