Cannot share printer or files of Office XP Professional.

I can see other computers on our home network from the Office XP Professional, but if I am on any computer I don't see XP Professional PC.  A problem I have a shared printer on the computer and no other machines can add it.  Initially, I had the printer on another XP PC at home but changed to XP Professional.

This problem was driving me pot for weeks after I added a new (used) XP Pro PC to my network.

Finally found my solution on Daniweb

Run regedit.

Go to my Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa

Find name restrictanonymous and if the DWORD value is 1, change it to 0.

As I said it worked for me, but your mileage may vary.

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