I hate windows xp home edition

[S4M33R]

I have spent several hours reading up on how to get a Dell laptop on the network at my office so that I can transfer some files onto the server for backup. None of the suggestions seem to help. I've created a user name and password identical on each computer and logged onto the pro computer as that user attempting to access the home computer with no avail. I have turned simple file sharing on and off. I've tried running different network wizards. I've prayed. I can see the computer on the network from the windows 2000 and windows xp workstations but I cannot seem to access the shared files. A box comes up saying "\\HomeEditionComputer is not accessable. You may not have permissions to access this computer. Contact Admin... etc. Network path is cannot be found."

HELP

edit: forgot to mention that this Home edition computer can access the internet, so its probably not a router issue.

 

[kfranc9]

well, have u tried sharing a folder. By default, XP Home formats the file system with FAT32 so u should only see the sharing tab.

I would first recommend:
ping \\HomeEditionComputer from ure other workstation?
ping ure other workstation from \\HomeEditionComputer

what are your results?
reply with that and ure ipconfig settings on ure \\homeeditioncomputer

 

[de8212]

Have you mapped a network drive? Seems like I had to do that one time in a similar situation and it helped.
hope you get it working.

 

[S4M33R]

Thanks guys, I eventually ended up installing pro on top of home edition. I'll try those mapping the drive tommorow. The file system is NTFS so the first suggestion won't work. I had the router automatically assign an IP, I will get those settings tommorow as well though. \

Of course, pro worked flawlessly :disgust:

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: S4M33R
Thanks guys, I eventually ended up installing pro on top of home edition. I'll try those mapping the drive tommorow. The file system is NTFS so the first suggestion won't work. I had the router automatically assign an IP, I will get those settings tommorow as well though. \

Of course, pro worked flawlessly :disgust:

should be irrelevant

 

[mcveigh]

was the builtin firewall off?
was simple sharing enabled...and you checked off let network users change my files?
did you actually setp a share?

 

[Savij]

http://www.tweaktown.com/document.php?dType=review&dId=145&dPage=3
Look at tweak #5

Note: some would consider mucking with the Local security settings a security issue, so keep that in mind if/when you get chewed out for changing stuff on a work computer

 

[mechBgon]

How about opening Internet Explorer on a computer that can see Homeboy on the LAN, then type

\\Homeboy\c$

in the address bar of IE. If it challenges you with a username/password box, type

Homeboy\Administrator as the username, and then whatever the password is. Assuming it's not too late by now.

Or, simply plug a USB flash drive into the durned thing's USB port and begin Zipping the data and portaging it using the USB flash drive?

Or, email or FTP the files to someplace, then pull them to your server from the email account, if they're not so "hot" that they can't be emailed