In article , Geoff Mills
says...

On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:53:53 -0000, Conor wrote:
XP networking is broken quite badly. It stands a higher chance of
working if there is an account on the host PC.

So that's what I've done.
I did have some hope of replacing Full Control for "Everyone" under
the share tab with Full Control for the more selective "Authenticated
Users". This followed by various permissions for individual Users and
Groups under the Security tab.

I've more recently ended up reverting to Full Control sharing for
"Everyone" just to get some consistent access.

Heh-heh..it is ****e isn't it? At least Vista and Win7 finally fix it
all.

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Conor

I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.