Home Networking on Windows XP

[Nate Smith]

One thing that I've found, especially when sharing between an NT kernel and a 9x kernel, is a particular setting in XP

1. Go to start->control panel
2. Open Administrative Tools
3. Open Local Security Policy
4. Open Local Policies, then Security options
5. Find the setting "Accounts: Limit local account use of blank passwords to console logon only". It most likely is enabled. Change it to disabled and restart the computer.

Also, in the same section, you may need to play around with the "Network access: Shares that can be accessed anonymously" setting.