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Windows XP Home File Sharing over network WAN

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by suzanne.l.healy

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A prior IT person put a workstation with WinXP Home in our office. It's being used by a physician as she is dictating. Her transcriptionist used an XP Pro machine, however, as she was located in the same office so sharing a folder over the lan was no problem. Now the transcriptionist has moved to another office. The offices are connected via a sonicwall. The problem I am having now is that the XP Pro machine can't see the Home machine share. Is there a workaround that I can implement to overcome this, or am I just missing something simple.

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by thumbsup2

XP Home is not designed for an office environment. The communication protocols just aren't there to do what you want to do.

If you have an office file server, you could push the files from the Home machine to the file server. You could even push the files from the Home machine to the Pro machine. But, getting a Pro machine to recognize shares on a Home machine isn't going to happen. The communication protocols simply aren't present.

by oh smeg

I would suggest that you install a copy of XP Pro to the machine and add more RAM if required. While it is possible to make it work now when the next round of M$ Patches become available it's likely to break again.

No matter what it's not going to be reliable and so it's unusable as It currently stands. You also need to look at the Security Issues of if you can send the files to a Server where they may be picked up by others not directly connected with either the Doc of her staff. There are generally some Privacy Issues that you need to resolve as well depending on where you live it may not even be acceptable to send the files over the LAN.

When you install Pro remember to stay Legit or if you are hit with a Software Audit by M$ it's will cost someone there a [b]Lot of Money and a New License.[/b]

Col

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