XP Home edition Question

[lfoldesi]

Hello all,
I have 2 XP Home Edition PCs connecting to a wireless access point. The access point is connected to my netgear cable router. Both PCs obtain IP address from routers DHCP and can browse the internet just fine. I can ping each PC from the other one but I can not browse shared files and or printers. I receive the "Access Denied. You may not have rights to view files on this computer. Network Path Not Found." message when enableing file and print sharing. The guest account is active on each PC. I have shared folders on both. I've even installed NetBeui on each to no avail.

I can not get this to work. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

 

[bcastner]

See Steve Winograd's step-by-step guide:

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp/filesharing.htmex.htm

As a guess:

. Firewall is blocking Netbios traffic;
. You do not have "Enable Netbios over TCP/IP" set in TCP/IP, Properties, Advanced, DNS tab;
. Something, anything, shared on both machines
. Same Workgroup name, different computer names
. All users of computer A made users of computer B, and vice-versa

If Netbui cannot let you browse the network, it is 98% certain that a firewall is the issue. Even the native ICF XP firewall would lead to the result you are experiencing.

If using PC-Illan as the Antivirus sofware, disable the default firewall component.

 

[karlehenry]

i had this problem many many many times. THis is a fire wall issue

Windows xp has a built in firewall, go to network properties, right click on local area connetion ( the one that is for you NIC card. and select advanced options, and disable the firewall.

IF you have a netgear router and are using encryption you dont really need the xp firewall. the router is a good way of protecting your pc ip's are masked by the one ip by the router.

Karl Henry
karlehenry@optonline.net
Computer Consultant/Desktop Specialist/Help Desk Administrator

 

[lfoldesi]

I have done all of the above. ICF is off on both machines. Netbios over TCP/IP is enabled. I even tried NetBeui on both PCs. I can only ping my DELL from my laptop. I can not ping my laptop from the DELL. yet both PCs browse the internet just fine uconnecting through a wireless access point. I've reinstalled the TCP/IP stack using netsh command. My user account on both machines did have different names so I renamed the one to match the other. Might this be the problem. I thought workgroups using tcp/ip was supposed to be a snap in XP.....

Thanks,