Re: OT: Access denied when trying to connect to XP Pro from XP Home

Abrasha <abrasha@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:c6SdnbDoZcokqBLeRVn-
og@xxxxxxxxxxx:

> First an apology. I have tried to solve this problem on my own for a
> couple of months. Searching the Net for solutions. Changing settings
> until I was blue in the face. Going to the Microsoft site., which was
> probably the worst route. I hope someone here has had similar problems
> and was able to fix them.
>
> I have a wireless network setup between an XP Pro and an XP Home
> computer. I have trouble getting access to certain folders on the Pro
> PC from the Home PC.
>
> Whenever I try to do this, I get the following message:
>
> ?\\<computer name> is not accessible. You might not have permission to
> use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to
> find out if you have access permissions.
>
> Access is denied.?
>
> I have literally spent a couple of months trying to get to the bottom
of
> this. I am at my wits end - the XP Pro machine can see and access the
> XP Home shared folders great, the XP Home machine can see the XP Pro on
> the network, but can't see certain shared folders, and gives the above
> error message when trying to access them. What am I doing wrong?
>
> I can see all the folders that I want to share on the Pro PC in "My
> Network Places" on the Home PC, but not open all of them. The folders
> that I can open are all in the Administrator's account on the Pro
> machine. The folders that I cannot open are all in another account.
>
> I have tried to disable Simple File Sharing. That only worked when I
> tried to access the folders in question from the Administrator account
> on the Home PC. It again did not work from other accounts on the Home
> PC. I have tried to enable the Guest Account on the Home machine, but
> that did not work either.
>
> I am certain that all of this has to do with the way Pro handles
> security much more rigidly than Home. I just need to figure out how to
> give the Home PC access to all the folders I want to give it access to.
>
> I would think that enabling sharing of a folder would do it. Obviously
> not so.
>
> I do hope someone can help me with this one.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Abrasha
>

You may need to have the "home" machine "re-join" the workgroup "owned"
by the "pro" machine: the "pro" machine is acting as a "Domain
Controller".

Hopefully, both will be defined as being within the same Domain with File
Sharing active on both machines.
.