Wednesday, October 10, 2007

XP Professional Incompatible With XP Home?

HP got my notebook back to me--but where it had Windows XP Media Edition (pretty much the same as Windows XP Home), now it has XP Professional. Unfortunately, there seems to be some incompatibility with respect to workgroups. XP Pro can't see any other members of the MSHOME workgroup, and XP Home on my wife's computer can't see my notebook. I haven't even tried to look at the notebook from the Linux box.

My guess is that XP Pro is more demanding on permissions or something, and I guess Microsoft figures that no one would actually try to put to XP Pro and XP Home on the same LAN, so there seems to be nothing that clearly identifies how to resolve this problem.

I really do not want to send this notebook back to HP, and I just don't have the energy to spend another five hours on the phone to India. I'm hoping that someone out there knows the magic trick to get XP Pro to share a workgroup with XP Home PCs.

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