XP Home to XP Home via IEEE 1394

[Tony Powell]

Tried everything.

1. Guest accounts active on both.
2. Documents shared and reshared
3. Ran wizards.
4. Browser service started
5. Tried with auto and static ip addresses
6. New cable
7. Same workgroup name
8. Same username
9. Same passwords
10. Netbios enabled over TCP/IP enabled
11. No network bridges

In fact tried everything anyone has ever said on this
forum, especially Mr. Steve!

Both pc's running XP HOME. Both have same username and
password and both guest accounts enabled. The most I have
been able to do is to "see" both computers in network
places at the same time on each machine.....however when
clicking on the "opposite" machine, the "might not have
permission to view....etc.etc." is displayed. Tried to
map, using UNC, everything. I am going nuts!

Should it really be this difficult?

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[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Tried everything.

1. Guest accounts active on both.
2. Documents shared and reshared
3. Ran wizards.
4. Browser service started
5. Tried with auto and static ip addresses
6. New cable
7. Same workgroup name
8. Same username
9. Same passwords
10. Netbios enabled over TCP/IP enabled
11. No network bridges

In fact tried everything anyone has ever said on this
forum, especially Mr. Steve!

Both pc's running XP HOME. Both have same username and
password and both guest accounts enabled. The most I have
been able to do is to "see" both computers in network
places at the same time on each machine.....however when
clicking on the "opposite" machine, the "might not have
permission to view....etc.etc." is displayed. Tried to
map, using UNC, everything. I am going nuts!

Should it really be this difficult?

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It should work, and it looks like you're doing the right things to
make it work. BTW, #8 and #9 aren't need when accessing XP Home on
network -- only when accessing XP Pro, and only when simple file
sharing has been disabled on XP Pro.

Make sure that a firewall isn't blocking access between the computers.

Try directly accessing each computer from the other by IP address and
by name. For example, if the computers are named Laptop and Desktop
and their IP addresses are 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2, try these commands
on both computers:

\\Laptop
\\Desktop
\\10.0.0.1
\\10.0.0.2

If access by name fails and access by IP address succeeds:

1. Double check that NetBIOS over TCP/IP is "Enabled", not "Default".

2. Run "ipconfig /all" on each computer and look at the "Node Type" at
the beginning of the output. If it says "Peer-to-Peer" (which should
actually be "Point-to-Point") that's the problem. It means that the
computer only uses a WINS server, which isn't available on a
peer-to-peer network for NetBIOS name resolution.

If that's the case, run the registry editor, open this key:

HLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netbt\Parameters

and delete these values if they're present:

NodeType
DhcpNodeType

Reboot, then try network access again.

If that doesn't fix it, open that registry key again, create a DWORD
value called "NodeType", and set it to 1 for "Broadcast" or 4 for
"Mixed".

For details, see these Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

Default Node Type for Microsoft Clients
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;160177

TCP/IP and NBT Configuration Parameters for Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314053
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Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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