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| 52862 | 2002-06-07 00:57:00 | My friends and I recently had a Lan, in which we had a multitude of networking problems. One of the most perplexing was that they couldn't connect to my machine or any of my shares. I was under the impression that with XP you were to turn on your Guest account in order to let others access your shares, but it seemed to make no difference when they connected to each other without guest on. I did, during that lan, reinstall my xp after I upgraded my motherboard (Soltek 75DRV4 (Tis Purple!! Cool!)& cpu and found a bad IDE cable (hence the reinstall). but before and after we had the same share problem. |
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| 52863 | 2002-06-07 01:15:00 | Run a LAN here with 4 machines, printer and ADDSL router, XP. Recently upgraded 2 hard drives on 2 machines, fresh install required. No network problems at all after reinstall, only had to set the workgroup ID to get all going. The differentiator may be that the ADSL router allocates the IP addresses (1.0.0.0 - onwards, subset 255.255.255.0)automatically, since adding it I have had no network issues. I am not a network guru, installed it all myself, made my own cables etc.(originally Win ME and W95) by searching the Web and following the instructions. Plenty of good sites were available. tj |
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| 52864 | 2002-06-07 02:47:00 | Yea, but our lan was also involving 4 machines, connected via 10/100 switch. We use Tcp/ip and have different numbers(192.168.0.**) and same subset, but found that in windows it doesn't seem to share but we can play together in games. (CS, MOHAA, Empire Earth, Urban Terror....) Weird! | Guest (0) | ||
| 52865 | 2002-06-08 00:47:00 | When you say 'Guest' account I'm assuming you're talking about the guest account in the Windows User Profile section? This also gives you the option to log on to your computer as 'Guest' when you turn your computer on. If this is the case, I came across exactly the same situation when I was in Oz recently. The person I was with had just bought XP, they were trying to play games over a LAN, but they needed to access each other's files for some reason or another. The other user had no problems, but this guy couldn't get the others to see his files - he had added a guest account... Enabling the Guest account has absolutely no impact whatsoever on whether users can access your files or not. In order to enable this you need to enable file sharing. You can do this by going into XP's explorer, right clicking on the drive (or just folder) you want people to have access to, then choose Sharing. Enable it and choose the appropriate settings. It will then configure your folders to be shared. No restart is required, and your friends should be able to access your files almost immediately. Let me know if this worked. |
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| 52866 | 2002-06-09 22:54:00 | I had also added sharing using the older win2k sharing options of sharing a folder. I hate that wizard stuff. It didnt solve the problem. I think I have a corrupt install of XP, so i'm gonna have to reinstall. Thanks for all your help guys. later |
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