Networking Home to Pro

I have two XP Pro machines networked and bought a new XP Home machine. I
just want to access a database that is on the Pro machine using the XP Home
machine. They are both on the same workgroup and I can see the workgroup
from the Home machine but when I try to join it says I don't have
permission. I don't believe the Pro machine is set up on a domain as I
understand this would prohibit the Home from joining. When I try to
manually map a drive using the same address that is working on the second
Pro machine it says it doesn't exist.
Any help would be appreciated,
Tim

XP Home is a bit of a basket case as far as networking is concerned.

Can you see the share using net view \\machinename from a command prompt
on Home? If you can, can you do a
net use z: \\machinename\filename?

What actually happens if you try to put the XPHome machine in the
workgroup?

Tim wrote:
> I have two XP Pro machines networked and bought a new XP Home
> machine. I just want to access a database that is on the Pro machine
> using the XP Home machine. They are both on the same workgroup and I
> can see the workgroup from the Home machine but when I try to join it
> says I don't have permission. I don't believe the Pro machine is set
> up on a domain as I understand this would prohibit the Home from
> joining. When I try to manually map a drive using the same address
> that is working on the second Pro machine it says it doesn't exist.
> Any help would be appreciated,
> Tim