home network

Philippines
February 20, 2007 3:27am CST
I have a home network with three computers, one running XP-Pro, one running XP-Home and one running Win 98SE. I found it easy to make the computers fully accessible over the network with one exception: the one running XP-Home. What's the secret to getting that operating system to let down its guard and allow the other two computers to get anything more than read-only access to its files? The XP-Home computer is running Norton SystemWorks, although I've disabled the Norton firewall and use ZoneAlarm instead. The other two computers use AVG anti-virus with ZoneAlarm firewall. To allow sharing on the XP-Home computer, I right click the C-drive, select "Properties" and the "Sharing" menu and select "Share this Folder". It shows Share Name as "C$", Comment as "Default Share" and "Maximum Allowed". But although I can read the XP-Home computer's files on the other two computers, I can't edit them. What more do I need to do to get full access? Thanks for any suggestions you can offer.
2 responses
AJMSmith
@AJMSmith (112)
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22 Feb 07
Under early versions of windows networking you logged onto the network and then could accessthe resources of the network. Under more recent version you had to log into each and every COMPUTER on the network individually. So what you need to do is create a user account for the user to log into (BTW it can be the sane user ID and password that they currently use on their own machine) Additionally you need "Full share" to allow read/write access ... the Default is read only.
ebo_bro
@ebo_bro (190)
• Philippines
20 Feb 07
I had the same problem before, I just could not remember how I fix it because I'm using win 2000 now. well check if the files are read only. maybe you copied it from a CD or DVD. The file might be i use on other computer. You had set it up so that others can not edit them. Well lots of thing can affect it. aslo try disabling your firewall. I do remember everything works well before I install a firewall but after that, we're having difficulty seeing other computers. now we just transfer files using flash drives.