Accessing an XP Pro machine from the network

[Peace]

Hi,

I have an XP Pro machine that is configured to be a WORKGROUP member (as
contrary to be a domain member). This XP machine is actually a laptop & I
use it at different places. One of them is the office where I work. When I
plug this laptop to the office hub, it does get an IP address release from
the DHCP server & from it, I can access other workstation on the office LAN.

However, the opposite is not true. That is, when I want to map a drive from
any office LAN workstation to the C drive of the laptop, I keep getting the
username/password window even when I enter the administrator account &
password of the laptop.

Does anyone have any solution to this?

Thank you

[Patrick Pitre]

Peace,

What happens when you try to connect to the laptop using these credentials:

laptopname\administrator
theadminpassword

Unless you're using the above method, you might be inadvertantly trying to
pass local machine credentials to the laptop.

Hope this helps.

Patrick Pitre

"Peace" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
>
> I have an XP Pro machine that is configured to be a WORKGROUP member (as
> contrary to be a domain member). This XP machine is actually a laptop & I
> use it at different places. One of them is the office where I work. When I
> plug this laptop to the office hub, it does get an IP address release from
> the DHCP server & from it, I can access other workstation on the office
LAN.
>
> However, the opposite is not true. That is, when I want to map a drive
from
> any office LAN workstation to the C drive of the laptop, I keep getting
the
> username/password window even when I enter the administrator account &
> password of the laptop.
>
> Does anyone have any solution to this?
>
> Thank you
>
>

[Thierry Blanchard]

Have you tried to disable the "Simple Files Sharing" in the Folder Options ?
This might be an incorrect translation to english from my french XP version.

"Patrick Pitre" > a écrit dans le message de
...
> Peace,
>
> What happens when you try to connect to the laptop using these
credentials:
>
> laptopname\administrator
> theadminpassword
>
> Unless you're using the above method, you might be inadvertantly trying to
> pass local machine credentials to the laptop.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Patrick Pitre
>
> "Peace" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have an XP Pro machine that is configured to be a WORKGROUP member (as
> > contrary to be a domain member). This XP machine is actually a laptop &
I
> > use it at different places. One of them is the office where I work. When
I
> > plug this laptop to the office hub, it does get an IP address release
from
> > the DHCP server & from it, I can access other workstation on the office
> LAN.
> >
> > However, the opposite is not true. That is, when I want to map a drive
> from
> > any office LAN workstation to the C drive of the laptop, I keep getting
> the
> > username/password window even when I enter the administrator account &
> > password of the laptop.
> >
> > Does anyone have any solution to this?
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> >
>
>