XP peer-peer networking

I tried to set up a peer-peer between two XP workstations and the bloody
thing just wouldnt work,

when i tried to connect to a share i only got the option to connect as guest
which was disabled on the target computer.

i was using the admin acount on both PCs and the passwords were identical.

enabling the guest account and giving it a password made no difference.

ISTR that peer-peer in XP is very different from NT and 2000 which is very
easy to configure.

what am I missing ?

On 25/02/2005 (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> I tried to set up a peer-peer between two XP workstations and the
> bloody thing just wouldnt work,
>
> when i tried to connect to a share i only got the option to connect
> as guest which was disabled on the target computer.
>
> i was using the admin acount on both PCs and the passwords were
> identical.
>
> enabling the guest account and giving it a password made no
> difference.
>
> ISTR that peer-peer in XP is very different from NT and 2000 which is
> very easy to configure.
>
> what am I missing ?


The easiest way is to have the same user name on each PC with the same
password and you should be able to connect OK.

You will need to specifically set up folders to share and then add
permissions for the user you set up. It looks a bit daft because you
add user //pc1/fred on pc1 and user //pc2/fred on pc2 but it works :-)

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Jeff Gaines
Posted with XanaNews 1.17.2.7

i'd enable netbui

see:

http://www.chicagotech.net/nettroublshooting.htm

mike

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I tried to set up a peer-peer between two XP workstations and the bloody
> thing just wouldnt work,
>
> when i tried to connect to a share i only got the option to connect as
guest
> which was disabled on the target computer.
>
> i was using the admin acount on both PCs and the passwords were identical.
>
> enabling the guest account and giving it a password made no difference.
>
> ISTR that peer-peer in XP is very different from NT and 2000 which is very
> easy to configure.
>
> what am I missing ?

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> I tried to set up a peer-peer between two XP workstations and the
> bloody thing just wouldnt work,
>
> when i tried to connect to a share i only got the option to connect
> as guest which was disabled on the target computer.
>
> i was using the admin acount on both PCs and the passwords were
> identical.
>
> enabling the guest account and giving it a password made no
> difference.
>
> ISTR that peer-peer in XP is very different from NT and 2000 which is
> very easy to configure.
>
> what am I missing ?

Have you run the network setup wizard on each machine?

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