Re: XP upgrade and now I can't share files or change workgroup

Are you logged on as a local administrator?? That is something that will be
different than from Windows 98 in that in Windows 98 all users had the same
abilities on the computer but now only users in the administrators group can
do tasks such as you describe. You can use the command net localgroup
administrators [while logged on as any users] to see what users are members
of the local administrators group. --- Steve


"Bob Wallis" <rwallismn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I upgraded an older computer from Win98 to XPSP2. The name of the
workgroup is MSHOME and it is grayed out so I cannot change it. I also
cannot share the drives on that machine. Is there something in XP that I
have to enable after upgrading??

TIA



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