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More info?)
First of all. I appreciate all the answers and help.
Fitzbugglit,
I already checked the firewalls. I discovered the firewall situation by
searching a few days ago. I turned the Windows XP firewall off and I am using
the Norton firewall on my laptop. What is the difference between the 2
firewalls?
Nepatsfan,
I followed your steps and the file and printer sharing is working perfectly.
Now I have a few more questions. I am using Outlook Express 6 on my desktop
with Windows 2000 Pro. I am trying to get my e-mail to receive on my laptop
which I am also using OE6 but on XP Pro. I can send e-mail from my laptop but
I receive e-mail through my desktop. How do I set OE6 up to receive e-mail on
my laptop as well as my desktop? On my desktop, I have a profile for my wife
and myself. Which means she has her own address book and I have my own. Where
are the address books located? I was able to import the "DEFAULT" address
book but it has both my e-mail addresses as well as my wife's e-mail
addresses mixed together. Which is better OE6 or Outlook 2003?
I am hoping to do a clean install of XP Pro to my desk top this weekend.
Will I still be able to use my laptop to access the internet, e-mail,
printers and files while my desktop is down? I will save our important files
to my laptop before I perform the clean install.
Thanks,
Blake
"Nepatsfan" wrote:
> Blake wrote:
> > I tried that. My laptop is setup as administrator and my
> > desktop was the same. My desktop had an administrator
> > setting so I set the password to match the laptop. When I
> > logged on the desktop as administrator with the password,
> > the desktop would lock up when I tried accessing any folder.
> > What do I need to look for in the permissions? I did adjust
> > the permissions settings but maybe I missed something.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Blake
> >
> First of all, you should reserve the built-in Administrator
> account for emergency use only. The standard recommendation is
> to create an additional account that is a member of the
> administrator's group. If you've already created these
> accounts, great.
>
> That said, you might want to try the following:
>
> 1. As has been pointed out, make sure any 3rd party firewall
> programs that are running on your desktop are configured to
> allow access from other computers on your network.
>
> 2. Check the Local Security Policy on the Win2K machine. It's
> located in Adminstrative Tools. Under Local Policies\User
> Rights Assignment, make sure that "Deny access to this computer
> from the network" has not been enabled. Also, make sure that
> the appropriate groups are included in the "Access this
> computer from the network" policy.
>
> 3.Log on to your desktop computer.
> Stop sharing all the resources that are currently being shared
> over your network, folders and printers. You should start from
> scratch.
> Reboot your computer.
> Once your computer restarts, go back and recreate your shared
> folders and printer. Make sure that the Everyone group has Full
> Control. Check both the Sharing and the Security tabs.
> Restart your laptop.
> See if you can access the folders on your desktop.
>
> If you're still having problems getting file sharing to work
> and you haven't done so already you might want to post this
> question to the Windows XP networking newsgroup. You can access
> them here:
>
>
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web&lang=en&cr=US
>
> Good luck
>
> Nepatsfan
>
>
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