Posts by chanto!

Thank you for such quick response. We do not have an IT Department. what I'm tyring to do is reach another computer whom we share files with. Thank you for the concern.

Given your example. Kissy can not access any other computer in the domain with out a password. Brian can share kissy's files without a password. Brian Everione in the domain can share brians files with out a password exept for kissy.

My first problem started when I installed Norton Internet Security on my laptop. Once installed I was not able to see the other computers in the domain and they were not able to see me. I disable it and I was able to see the comps in the domain but not access there files.

Why is it asking me for a password. And if it requires one where can I change that or at least set one up.

Your help will be greatly appreciated.

Kissy Martinez

Are you logging into your laptop with your domain user account and not a local account? Also, is this laptop joined into a domain?

Try to open the SMB/CIFS ports on Norton.....I think they're ports 139 and 445.

Hi everyone first time post, but it seems to be a pretty difficult problem. I have two computers, the first is a AMD Desktop with two NIC cards (both Netgear 10 Mb). One of the netgear cards is configured to connect to the school's T3 connection, the other is meant to connect to my laptop. Both my pc and my laptop are on XP Home SP1.

I've configured my desktop to have a user defined private IP address of 10.0.0.1 with the usual mask.

I've configured my laptop to have an address of 10.0.0.2, usual mask and entered the gateway as 10.0.0.1.

I don't want to share Internet through the two PC's, but I would like to share files. If the internet is an option I'll do it, but thats not a priority. I have Internet connection firewall off on both pc's. The PC's can detect one another in network neighbourhood and ping each other, although they can't see which folders are shared and also can't be accessed. Now usually I'm pretty good with computers so I don't like asking for help, but networking isn't really my thing and this has me stumped. Help Please!

Just create the same user and password on both machines. When you're browsing resources, the browser service will try to authenticate with the local user on the other machine. Since you're in a workgroup, accounts created are local to just that machine... have to repeat on other machines also.