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Also, if you have a router on your network, make sure that this is also allowed access on your firewall.

I had a problem with accessing machines. As soon as I put my routers address in my firewalls "allow" list, everything was OK.

I have several books on networking. When I set up a network recently, following the complete steps in the books, not one of them mentioned early in the steps that if you have any antivirus or firewalls running to allow the router and IP addresses of each machine on the firewall. I'm guessing that the author assumed that the machines on the network all had fresh installs of your chosen operating system, which means that the network would run straight away.

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Yh the router is there, I really dunno how to access the workgroup from the MS home laptops. all i wanna do is show the shared folders in the network places. I can't believe its so difficult to have a network in windows.

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Network sharing problem

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Originally Posted by Nilpo

I was asked a very good question so I decided to post the solution here. People frequently have problems when filesharing between XP Home and XP Pro. You may recieve errors like the following:

"Error: \\pc name is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource...Access is denied."

or

"You might not have permission to use the network resource. Contact the administrator of the server to find out if you have access permission."

These types of errors are due to NTFS restrictions in effect on the target machine. Windows XP Pro has much more advanced permission controls than XP Home.

Or does it?

Try logging onto your XP Home machine in Safe Mode. When you view a file or folder's properties you'll notice the elusive Security Tab presumed to be missing from the Home Edition. In fact, it's not missing, but rather hidden in normal mode. This simple procedure will allow you to install it in normal mode so that you can make better use of NTFS permissions, and eliminate the errors shown above.

Download the Windows NT Server Security Configuration Manager from the Microsoft Website.
Run the downloaded scesp4i.exe to extract the contents.
Open the folder that you extracted the files into and right-click the file named setup.inf and choose Install.
Choose no, if asked to overwrite essent.dll
Restart you computer.

Congratulations, you've just returned the Security Tab to your file and folder properties.

Still want more? Okay. How about adding XP Pro's Group Policy Editor functionality to the Home edition? Try the freeware, Windows XP Security Console by Doug Knox.

I think I have the oppisite proble. I can go from XP Pro and sharethe XP home computer , but not from XP home to xP pro. ???
I have the permissions set to allow me. Any ideas. I have been beating my head againest the wall for week. Thinkng of put XP pro on my Dell. Lots of work though HELP PLease.

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