XP Home and XP Professional sharing a folder

[Guest]

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

 

[Malke]

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.

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

 

[Guest]

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