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

"J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:dnjoot11nrq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> RAM^3 wrote:
>
>> 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".
>
> ??? Windows XP Pro cannot act as a domain controller. You need one
> of the Server versions for that.

Not so:

"Pro" - AKA "NT Workstation" - CAN function as a BDC although not as a
PDC.

As a BDC [Backup Domain Controller] it'll think that the workgroup is a
Domain that it's nutty enough to attempt to control.

>
>> Hopefully, both will be defined as being within the same Domain with
>> File Sharing active on both machines.
>
> XP Home cannot join a domain. That is one of the major differences
> between XP Home and XP Pro. But since there's no domain controller
> the problem lies elsewhere anyway.
>

Dream on - any MicroSoft Desktop OS can be a member of a Domain,
especially W98SE and later.

The problem lies NOT with the "Home" edition but with the need for at
least 1 Domain Controller. ["PRO" can fill that role.]

BTW, I've set up several of these over the past 2 decades.

> Someone has already suggested checking if present turning off
> firewalling on the ports from which the machine is being accessed.
> Also turn off Zone Alarm and Norton <anything> and any other
> anti-malware measures until the problem is sorted.
>
> Also need to make sure that the share permissions are such that the
> account from which one is attempting access actually has access
> permission.
>

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