Topic: Xp Connection (Read 24 times)

laser5 · « **on:** February 27, 2008, 07:26:00 AM »

When connecting your XBOX to your computer is there a difference if you are using XP Home vs XP Professional? Reason I am asking I can connect to my computer running XP Professional but not to my computer running XP Home.

1hotjob · « **Reply #1 on:** February 27, 2008, 03:20:00 PM »

They are essentially the same. Look at firewalls and other things that could be blocking access.

laser5 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 27, 2008, 08:36:00 PM »

I wasn't able to find anything different in my firewall between the two computers. It is weird that I can not connect.

obcd · « **Reply #3 on:** February 28, 2008, 03:15:00 AM »

Hi,

can you ping the xbox from the xp home computer? What kind of connection are you trying? Ftp or Smb?

Smb is different between XP home and XP professional.

regards.

laser5 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 28, 2008, 06:39:00 AM »

I am able to ping the xbox, I am trying to smb the xbox to the computer.

obcd · « **Reply #5 on:** February 28, 2008, 07:22:00 AM »

Hi,

so if I understand you right, you have a shared folder on your xp computer that you are trying to access with your xbox. What dashboard are you using on your xbox?

regards.

laser5 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 28, 2008, 09:16:00 PM »

You are correct, I am using Unleash and xmbc

obcd · « **Reply #7 on:** February 29, 2008, 03:29:00 AM »

Hi,

XP home uses a simplified SMB sharing protocol. Once you set a folder for sharing, every pc on the network can access that folder. In XP professional, I believe this is called easy sharing.

The normal SMB sharing does a check on username and password. You can give specific rights to every user. (For instance read only.)

So, you might try to find the differences between the 2 to pinpoint to your problem. Maybe you have to leave the User field blank or something.

regards.

Bomb Bloke · « **Reply #8 on:** February 29, 2008, 09:24:00 AM »

Can you see the shares on the Home box? If not, then it shouldn't be a permissions issue...

I've actually been having the exact same problem with a friend's Home box. Can't work it out. The systems ping quite happily, the home box just refuses to give share access.

Check the Exceptions tab under your Windows Firewall (located in the Control Panel). Make sure File Sharing is ticked.

Bring up the Properties sheet for the NIC the other systems are trying to connect through. Make sure it has the File Sharing service.

laser5 · « **Reply #9 on:** March 01, 2008, 10:57:00 AM »

Everything is set up for sharing, the xbox is just unable to find any of the files or connect

Bomb Bloke · « **Reply #10 on:** February 02, 2020, 06:10:00 PM »

Does that mean it can see the computer name and/or the shares?

laser5 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 03, 2020, 12:41:00 AM »

The xbox does not see anything

Bomb Bloke · « **Reply #12 on:** February 03, 2020, 01:27:00 AM »

So the permission settings are irrelevant and the physical wiring/IP address scheme is correct.

Doesn't leave much, does it?

What accounts are on your system? Do you have a Guest account? Is it active?

laser5 · « **Reply #13 on:** February 03, 2020, 08:07:00 PM »

I read in a different post to set up a guest account, so I did and it is active. Both ways it didn't work.

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