Dr.Jay
07-07-02, 02:27 PM
I hope someone can help with this:
I have a peer to peer network in my home consisting of 4 XP boxes. On my machine, I run Win XP Pro (I think of it as the server-has the broadband connection) and all the others I run XP home. Recently, I had to reinstall XP Pro (clean reformat) on my machine and after the re-install all sorts of strange security issues have come up.
For example, I can share the Broadband connection fine, and I can see the other machines on the network, but they connot see any of my shared resources. One of the printers is on my machine and despite sharing the printer, no one else can see it.
I have 5 users set up on this machine all set as Administrators. I have found since the re-install, that software I install under my user name is not available to the other users/ Administrators. I have been forced to change the policy settings in REGEDIT for everything I install- and this still won't allow all programs to be available to all users ( I assign permissions to 'everyone'). Also, after installing Office 2000, and fixing permissions in REGEDIT, it can be used by all users that log on, but windows installer runs everytime Word or Excel starts. It says "please wait while Windows configures Office 2000" and then the software runs.
I did not have these problems when I originally installed XP Pro on this same machine in November.
I have been all over the security settings using security settings in the MMC and I can't figure this out. Is there one easy tweak to fix these problems that I'm overlooking?
Any advice is appreciated.:mad:
I have a peer to peer network in my home consisting of 4 XP boxes. On my machine, I run Win XP Pro (I think of it as the server-has the broadband connection) and all the others I run XP home. Recently, I had to reinstall XP Pro (clean reformat) on my machine and after the re-install all sorts of strange security issues have come up.
For example, I can share the Broadband connection fine, and I can see the other machines on the network, but they connot see any of my shared resources. One of the printers is on my machine and despite sharing the printer, no one else can see it.
I have 5 users set up on this machine all set as Administrators. I have found since the re-install, that software I install under my user name is not available to the other users/ Administrators. I have been forced to change the policy settings in REGEDIT for everything I install- and this still won't allow all programs to be available to all users ( I assign permissions to 'everyone'). Also, after installing Office 2000, and fixing permissions in REGEDIT, it can be used by all users that log on, but windows installer runs everytime Word or Excel starts. It says "please wait while Windows configures Office 2000" and then the software runs.
I did not have these problems when I originally installed XP Pro on this same machine in November.
I have been all over the security settings using security settings in the MMC and I can't figure this out. Is there one easy tweak to fix these problems that I'm overlooking?
Any advice is appreciated.:mad: