Allowing file and printer sharing on xp

This topic is intended to address a specific issue identified by a Best Practices Analyzer scan. You should apply the information in this topic only to computers that have had the File Services Best Practices Analyzer run against them and are experiencing the issue addressed by this topic.

For more information about best practices and scans, see Best Practices Analyzer. The firewall ports necessary for file and printer sharing are not open ports and Computers will not be able to access shared folders and other Server Message Block SMB -based network services on this server.

The result of this is that I can communicate both ways for machine a to machine b but not reliably but I can't see my workgroup in windows Xp and I can't connect from windows 10 to windows xp.

I simply want to create a home network, consisting of a windows XP machine and 2 windows 10 machines. This seems to be almost impossible. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.

I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. The following steps show you how to adjust these permissions to your liking: To remove the Everyone group from the permissions list, click the Remove button. Add specific users to the permissions list by clicking the Add button. The Select Users or Groups dialog box appears. Select which user or group is allowed to connect to the share by selecting the user. You may add multiple users by clicking on the first user and then holding down the CTRL key and clicking on additional users.

Click Add to return to the Permissions dialog box. To set a user's permissions, select one of the following permissions for that user: There are three different permissions that you can assign to a user when dealing with shares: Full Control: The Full Control permission allows a user to read and change the contents of files on the share, to delete files on the share, and to change the share permissions.

This permission is not normally assigned to users. Change: The Change permission allows a user to read the contents of files in the share, change the contents of files that exist in the share, and delete files. Users cannot change permissions on the share with the Change permission.

Read: The Read permission allows a user or group to read but not modify the content in the shared folder. Click OK and then click OK again to exit the dialog boxes. If this is the first time to use the feature, you will see the following screen.

Then click on the If you understand the security risks but want to share files without running the wizard, click here Choose Just enable file sharing and click OK. From the Network sharing and security group, check the option Share this folder on network in order to enable the the Sharing feature. If you don't want others to change or modify you files, you should uncheck the option Allow network users to change my files We suggest use not more than 12 characters for the share name , if any Windows 9x user would access this share folder Press OK to confirm this operation.

Now you can see an icon with a hand holding the folder.