XP Home and XP Pro

I have a work laptop running XP Pro. At home I have a home network running XP Home. However, whilst i can browse the Internet okay on my XP Pro Laptop, I can't access the Share folders of the home network (all PC's running XP Home), nor can I see my home printer.

How can I allow my XP Pro laptop more access to my home network?

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 05:21:07 -0700, "RichardD"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have a work laptop running XP Pro. At home I have a home network running XP Home. However, whilst i can browse the Internet okay on my XP Pro Laptop, I can't access the Share folders of the home network (all PC's running XP Home), nor can I see my home printer.
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>How can I allow my XP Pro laptop more access to my home network?

Richard,

Are you unable to "see" the home network? Or are you unable to connect to a
needed share?

When you're in Windows Explorer, the home network shares should be visible under
My Network Places - Entire Network - Microsoft Windows Network.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

Chuck - I can see the two XP Home computers in the Mshome workgroup. However, if I double click on either of them I get a "connect" dialog box asking for login id and password. If I'm on one of the XP home machines and I click on the other XP home, I can at least see the Shared folder and access the home printer. Ah, I've just tried entering "Guest" as user id without a password and I can now access the shared folder and I can see the home printer. I suppose I ought to make it more secure by putting on a password on the Guest account. Excellent. Thanks v. much.

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:06:06 -0700, "RichardD"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Chuck - I can see the two XP Home computers in the Mshome workgroup. However, if I double click on either of them I get a "connect" dialog box asking for login id and password. If I'm on one of the XP home machines and I click on the other XP home, I can at least see the Shared folder and access the home printer. Ah, I've just tried entering "Guest" as user id without a password and I can now access the shared folder and I can see the home printer. I suppose I ought to make it more secure by putting on a password on the Guest account. Excellent. Thanks v. much.

Richard,

Ack. It's the XP Pro LSP again.

On the XP Pro computer, check to see if Simple File Sharing (Control Panel -
Folder Options - View - Advanced settings) is enabled or disabled.

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.

Of course, all of this has to be done without affecting the ability to use the
XP Pro computer at work. Sounds like using the Guest account is the best bet
for you. Thanks for updating us.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.