Dial-up remote access

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I have an XP Home laptop dialling in to an XP Pro laptop, (but specifically not trying to use Remote Assistance or Remote Desktop), all I want to do is access shared folders & printers. Whilst making the connection is successful, once connected, I can't view any shared folders on Host (Pro) laptop. When I look under My Network Places, all I get is the name of the Workgroup I created (on both laptops), but no folders & I can't map the shares either. I have run the Network Connection Wizard on both laptops, & the shares all appear to be set up correctly. Is what I'm trying to do actually possible under XP, it certainly was under Win98.

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Tried both those pages, turning off Simple File Sharing didn't make any difference. The odd thing is, from the host laptop, I can ping both host & client IP address, but from the Client laptop, I can't ping the host, so presumably until I get that working, I'm not going to be able to see any shared files. I emailed Microsoft, who said you can't do basic file sharing via dial-up access & recommended using PCAnywhere. Seems a bit sad when it was possible to do this with Win98. Any other ideas ?

----- S Vijay [MSFT] wrote: -----


Hi,

You can shares files and folders in windows xp by following the
instructions in the article given below:

http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -US;304040

http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] duct=winxp

I hope that the above information helps you resolve the issue.

S.Vijay

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