I have 2 pc's, one with xp and one with w2000. When the current W2000 had win 98 all was OK. I formated and installed w2000. Both have assigned IP address. Now the W2K pc can access the XP pc, but locks up when trying to add it's shared printer. The XP pc see's the W2K pc, but when you click on it, after a delay of about a minute, it says that you don't have the rights to access the W2K pc. I have user names and passwords entered in both pc's. I've tried everything I can think of, short of a S&W !!!! Any help will be appreciated...
Bob,
Is the XP Home or Pro? If Pro, check to see if Simple File Sharing (Control
Panel - Folder Options - View - Advanced settings) is enabled or disabled. With
XP Pro, you need to have the SFS settings the same on each computer.
If SFS is disabled, check the Local Security Policy (Control Panel -
Administrative Tools). Under Local Policies - Security Options, look at
"Network access: Sharing and security model", and ensure it's set to "Classic -
local users authenticate as themselves".
If you set the Local Security Policy to "Guest only", make sure that the Guest
account is enabled, and has an identical, non-blank, password on all computers.
If "Classic", setup and use a common account with identical, non-blank, password
on all computers.
Do either of the computers have a software firewall (ICF or third party)? If
so, you need to configure them for file sharing, by opening ports TCP 139, 445
and UDP 137, 138, 445, and / or by identifying the other computers as present in
the Local (Trusted) zone. Firewall configurations are a very common cause of
(network) browser and file sharing problems.
If none of this was helpful, provide ipconfig information for each computer.
Start - Run - "cmd". Type "ipconfig /all >c:\ipconfig.txt" into the command
window - Open c:\ipconfig.txt in Notepad, copy and paste into your next post.
Label each with operating system.
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
