Comments on: Enabling File and Printer Sharing in Windows XP

By: Steve Wiseman

Steve Wiseman — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:10:58 +0000

That is because XP Home does not allow you to do anything *but* simple file sharing. So, there really is not a way to get XP home setup securely for remote programs that use the $admin share.

By: J-Dog

J-Dog — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:34:04 +0000

I have checked for the simple file sharing option under Tools–>Folder Options–>View Tab but that option does not exist on my version of windows xp home. I have tried almost every option that I have found for a solution such as resetting the tcpip, reinstalling File and Printer Sharing, reinstalling the NIC and I am almost to the point of reinstalling windows XP to see if that will correct the problem. It was working on these two machines on thursday and before that had been working for months and then just quit so i am quite sure it is an update that the computer has taken. When i check the system restore it show distribution updates 3.0 and the regular schedule restore points. Im stumped, any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

By: Steve Wiseman

Steve Wiseman — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:19:22 +0000

I would check and see if simple file sharing is enabled. This can cause what you describe.

By: J-Dog

J-Dog — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:30:52 +0000

I have two machines who can see each other in network places and one machine can access files and printers on the one computer but the other computer cannot access files and printers even though it can see the other computer on the network. Gives a permissions error.

By: Steve Wiseman

Steve Wiseman — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:13:26 +0000

I would start out by trying the admin share. Do this by going to start, then run, and type \\hostname\admin$ where hostname is the remote host.

Can you see the remote host?

If not, then something is blocking file sharing

If that works, then open regedit and try to browse the remote machine’s registry. If you can open it, can you browse HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, or do you get errors?

By: Olisa

Olisa — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:39:01 +0000

Good day! I’m have trouble with intelliadmin lan edition. I ,anually enable remote desktop and file shering, unchecked simple flie sharing but still cant connect to some computers. ‘SOMETHING HAPPENED THAT PREVENTED . . .’Kindly help me

By: Steve Wiseman

Steve Wiseman — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:22:23 +0000

Unfortunately not. Every quick fix we make for this problem gets broken by Microsoft – in a very bad way. The last time we wrote a program to do this for you, MS came out with a patch, and after that patch was applied, our program would break all file sharing on the system. Ouch!

So the easy way is to follow the steps, and remember that XP Home will not work with the instructions above. It was designed that way

By: Kunadawa

Kunadawa — Sat, 02 May 2009 10:08:05 +0000

Man, I followed your steps religiously but I’m still failing to log on to another PC. Im using XP/SP2. Isn’t there some kinda quick fix exe i can download from you?

By: Steve Wiseman

Steve Wiseman — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:34:13 +0000

No way I know of. I would use a utility like Bart’s PE

You can find it here:

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

With this free utility you can create a bootable windows CD, and then you could access the files on your C Drive

By: GSK

GSK — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:07:21 +0000

I’m having problem with loading XP Pro so I booted using command line (took me a while to figure this out). Now I need to access and recover files on my C drive but typing c:\docume~1 gives an Access is Denied msg.

So how can I disable simple file sharing using the command line since I have no access to Windows (it have a prob and keeps rebooting)?

Thanks