What should I do to share files & printers in XP Home edition?

I connected two computers in a local working group, running a XP Professional, the other running XP Home. Everything worked as expected by sharing resources on the Pro machine (shared folder visible, shared the printer works, ping the other computer has answered), but I am unable to access the XP Pro machine XP Home machine. Both computers use static IP addresses.

What I have to do (to allow services? anything else?) to make the XP machine Home & resources accessible from the XP Pro machine?

This is much like a firewall problem.  Totally try UN-installing your 3rd party firewall product to see if you can test again.  Starting the Windows Firewall Service is providing the Services (start-> Run-> 'services.msc') screen, double-click the "Windows Firewall" service and making sure that the Startup Type is "Automatic" and the status of the service is "started."

HTH,
JW

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