Annoying problem with XP Home

[RealWarlock]

Evening all

I've set-up a wired network for my client and it is hooked-up to ADSL broadband router.

The client has three computers (XP Pro, Windows 98SE and XP Home), all can access the Internet just fine and can see each other via My Network Places.

XP Pro and Windows 98SE can share their files/folders just fine, but they both cannot access XP Home's files/folders, which kept denying. XP Home can access XP Pro and Win98SE files/folders.

The firewall is off on the XP Home, all three computers have the same workgroup name, and I cannot understand why XP Home wouldn't allow XP Pro or Windows 98SE access rights?? I simply 'right-click' on a folder and enabled share. That should be enough, right? Am I missing something?

XP Pro (IP: 192.168.1.64, Subnet: 255.255.255.0, Workgroup: RPTraffic)

XP Home (IP: 192.168.1.65, Subnet: 255.255.255.0, Workgroup: RPTraffic)

Windows 98SE (192.168.1.66, Subnet: 255.255.255.0, Workgroup: RPTraffic)

 

[ktwebb]

How are your share permissions setup on the Home box? Should be simple file sharing since it's XP home. The everyone permission might not be there if the machine was upgraded, OS or the file system (fat32 to NTFS for instance)

 

[RealWarlock]

I cannot find anything to do with permissons on XP Home??

All I can do is right-click and enable share a folder or a drive.

How do you explain that XP Pro can access Windows 98SE's files/folders just fine even though 98SE is fat32?

 

[ktwebb]

So when you go to the folder or volume that is shared, right click, then click sharing: There is no permissions button?

 

[RealWarlock]

No. I didn't see anything like that and it is XP Home we are talking about. All I could do was either share it or not.

This is what comes up when accessing Windows XP Home (reception) via Win98SE machine:

\\reception\IPC$
Password require:

I've enabled the 'Guest' account on XP Home and there is no way to add a password.

Accessing XP Home via XP Pro just kept denying.

This is what I've tried:

Enabled NetBIOS over TCP/IP
Enabled 'Guest' account, but no way of adding a password

Hack the registry:

1. Start > Run > regedit.exe
2. Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SYSTEM
CurrentControlSet
Control
Lsa
3. Change the value of a key called "restrictanonymous" to 0 instead of 1 or 2

XP Home won't share the files/folders or even the printers.

 

[Slowlearner]

Install Netbuei as an additional protocol and everything will be fine.