XP Home and XP Professional sharing a folder

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Hi,

We have a network of XP professional PCs and a server (Server 2003) set up
on a domain, but one of the computers on our network is only running XP Home
(and so cant see the shared folders on the domain controller (server).

Is it possible to share a folder on one of the Professional PCs with the XP
home PC (via peer-to-peer networking)?

We've tried, but the Home PC Doesn't seem to be able to see the shared
folder.

Thanks for any help

Paul
 
PaulB said:
Hi,

We have a network of XP professional PCs and a server (Server 2003)
set up on a domain, but one of the computers on our network is only
running XP Home (and so cant see the shared folders on the domain
controller (server).

Is it possible to share a folder on one of the Professional PCs with
the XP home PC (via peer-to-peer networking)?

We've tried, but the Home PC Doesn't seem to be able to see the
shared folder.
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While XP Home can't join a domain, it can share domain resources. See:

Windows XP Home - Accessing data on a Domain Server -
http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/wxphdoms.htm

This is an old article and references older servers, but it is still
applicable.

Malke
 
Thanks for this Malke,

Seems to be working, one problem though could you tell me how to find the
"domain name" "(not the name of the Domain Server ! )"

Thanks again

Paul
 
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