Hi,
I have 3 machines running windows XP, they all belong to my company's domain. These machines have to leave our office but still have to be able to connect to each other and share a few folders on each. I used to do this all the time. I would make sure to turn on the "Server" service, set the windows firewall to allow File and Printer sharing, set the File and Printer sharing setting in the Local Area Connection properties, and set the proper sharing/security of the specific folder. Then as long as each machine used a specific local logon name that was the same on each machine, they would all connect to the shares and work perfectly.
However now, I seem to not be able to get any of this to work on machines that have service pack 3. Is there something in sp3 that breaks this?? Isn't there a way to still share files on these sp3 machines even though I'm not on the domain? (without changing the domain membership)
thanks,
-Jesse
I have 3 machines running windows XP, they all belong to my company's domain. These machines have to leave our office but still have to be able to connect to each other and share a few folders on each. I used to do this all the time. I would make sure to turn on the "Server" service, set the windows firewall to allow File and Printer sharing, set the File and Printer sharing setting in the Local Area Connection properties, and set the proper sharing/security of the specific folder. Then as long as each machine used a specific local logon name that was the same on each machine, they would all connect to the shares and work perfectly.
However now, I seem to not be able to get any of this to work on machines that have service pack 3. Is there something in sp3 that breaks this?? Isn't there a way to still share files on these sp3 machines even though I'm not on the domain? (without changing the domain membership)
thanks,
-Jesse